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This report shows how South-South Cooperation is playing a key role to identify solutions to sustainable development challenges, as well as delivering new ideas and resources to...

The report provides decision makers with information about the state of Kigali’s environment and suggests policy responses to make Kigali “a state of the art and aesthetically...

To find out how our environment is faring, St. Helena’s first ever State of the Environment Report has been created. This report hopes to provide a snapshot of the environment...

The United Nations Conference for Sustainable Development held in Rio de Janeiro in2012 (known as Rio+20) called for the convening in 2014 of a third internationalconference on...

This State of the Environment Report describes the environmental issues in Tuvalu and provides a background and context for the government in its next task of preparing the...

This report comes soon after the entry into force of the ASEAN Charter on 15 December 2008. The Charter represents a significant development in the long history of ASEAN which...

Twenty years after the BPOA, the third International Conference on the SustainableDevelopment of SIDS will once again bring to fore the vulnerabilities anddevelopment needs of...

The Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE) seeks to put sustainability at the heart of economic policy and practice.The Partnership supports nations and regions in...

The Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE) seeks to put sustainability at the heart of economic policy and practice.The Partnership supports nations and regions in...

Climate change caused by global warming has a wide-ranging impact on the atmosphere, marine environment plants and animals, glaciers, land, and human system. It has come to the...

Growth and prosperity are being achieved at the expense of the planet’s life support systems, and at the expense of greater inequality. Disasters are reversing development...

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The first and second editions of the UNEP EIA Training Resource Manual is the result of cooperation among a number or organisations and individual experts committed to...

Kyoto protocol was always an imperfect and has been made all the more imperfect by the fact that world's largest polluter has decided to stay out of the consensus and those who...

On September 25th 2015, the Heads of States of the UN’s 193 member states adopted the “2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” and its 17 “Sustainable Development Goals. This...

Every year we witness the hand-wringing of the G7 heads of state over the seemingly intractable poor country debt crisis. But at the 10th anniversary of the Earth Summit in 2002...

Uganda, 1. Welcomes the decision of the UN General Assembly in Resolution No. 64/236 to convene the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) to focus on the...

Factsheets in this series: Climate change, Resource efficiency, Disasters and conflicts, Environmental governance, Harmful substances and hazardous waste, Ecosystem management.

The medium-term strategy (MTS) of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) sets out an analysis of the significant environmental challenges that the world will face in...

The UNEP medium-term strategy for the period 2014–2017 plots the direction that UNEP will take in pursuit of that goal. It lays out the vision, strategic objectives and the...