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The resumed Fifth Session of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-5) provides the opportunity to bridge, build on and catalyze impact in relation to multilateral environmental...

Discussions of environment-trade issues are notoriously complex, cluttered with legalistic and technical language, and frequently opaque. As such, environmental stakeholders...

Costs and Benefits for the Developing Countries of becoming Parties to Environmental Treaties

This legal review is one of the preliminary studies recommended by the UNEP Approach to SPP with a view to design and then implement an SPP Action Plan. The UNEP Approach to SPP...

The purpose of this paper is to summarize and synthesize the output of a series of UNEP sponsored meetings, which have explored how to realize synergies and reduce potential...

This report was prepared by the international expert Elena Laevskaya (hereinafter - the expert) in accordance with the terms of reference provided by UNECE. At the start of the...

At UN Environment we work with countries to promote effective and inclusive environmental governance by promoting a rights-based-approach to environmental management, and by...

The 1992 Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is part of a cluster of biodiversity-related MEAs that includes, among others, its Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety and Nagoya...

Climate change and management of hazardous chemicals and wastes are two of the many challenges facing policy and decision makers committed to meeting the Sustainable Development...

Azerbaijan is not yet a Party to the Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment (Protocol on SEA) to the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary...

The Agreement will include the families of birds which are traditionally treated as waterbirds, following the definitions of "waterfowl" and "wetland" in the Ramsar Convention,...

This short booklet briefly outlines various concrete and practical ways of achieving the desired synergies. It is based on a series of regional and sub-regional workshops...

The Review encompasses different approaches, doctrines, techniques and theories in the field, including international environmental compliance and enforcement, international...

The aim of the Course is to equip present and future negotiators of multilateral environmental agreements with the information and experiences of others in the area of...

The papers in the present Review are based on lectures given during the eighth University of Eastern Finland – UNEP Course on International Environmental Agreements. It was held...

The aim of the Course is to convey key tools and experiences in the area of international environmental law-making to present and future negotiators of multilateral...

The articles in the present Review are based on lectures given during the third University of Joensuu – UNEP Course on International Environmental Law-making and Diplomacy,...

The articles in the present Review are based on lectures given during the fourth University of Joensuu – UNEP Course on International Environmental Law-making and Diplomacy,...

The aim of this study is to align the Convention on Biological Diversity’s post-2020 global biodiversity framework (GBF) with the remit and scope of the UNEP Regional Seas...

The case studies here presented demonstrate issues of concern and solutions for the sustainable management of natural resources across sectors, and the positive impacts policy...