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Recommendations for the Tourism Sector to Continue Taking Action on Plastic...
The following five recommendations are addressed to tourism stakeholders with the aim of supporting them to continue fighting plastic pollution during the COVID-19 recovery.... -
The Gathering Storm: Adapting to Climate Change in a Post-pandemic World -...
AGR2021 provides an update on current actions and the emerging results of regional-level to national level adaptation planning, finance and implementation worldwide (figure... -
Quarterly Report to the 151st Meeting of the Committee of Permanent...
COVID-19 response and impact remained a critical factor during this period. There were opportunities for innovation and there was a greater appreciation of the importance of... -
Quarterly Report to the 152nd Meeting of the Committee of Permanent...
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Policy Brief: The Impact of COVID-19 on Women
This policy brief focuses on each of these issues in turn, exploring how women and girls’ lives are changing in the face of COVID- 19, and outlining suggested priority measures... -
Think Piece: Gender and Climate Change in the Context of COVID-19
2020 was intended to be a pivotal year for the global gender equality agenda and global climate change ambition. It was supposed to be a year to mark the twenty-fifth... -
Emissions Gap Report 2020 - Executive Summary
As in previous years, this report assesses the gap between estimated future global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions if countries implement their climate mitigation pledges and the... -
Cold Chain Technology Brief: Vaccines
This note provides an overview of the vaccine cold chain in general and COVID-19 in particular, its requirements and challenges. First, the effects of temperature on these... -
COVID-19, the Environment and Food Systems: Contain, Cope, and Rebuild...
The Covid-19 pandemic is increasing poverty and threatening food security. Governments around the world have already invested more than $12 trillion to counteract the economic... -
COVID-19, the Environment and Food Systems: Contain, Cope, and Rebuild...
Governments around the world have invested about $12 trillion to counteract the economic effects of COVID-19. This investment could contribute to progress on the Sustainable... -
Leveraging Sustainable Public Procurement (SPP) for COVID-19 Recovery in the...
We are pleased to announce that the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) will initiate the project Leveraging Sustainable Public Procurement for COVID-19 Recovery in the... -
GEO Matters July/August 2022
The fifth United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-5) approved the resolution UNEP/EA.5/Res.3 on the future of the Global Environment Outlook (GEO) on March 2, 2022. In the... -
Chapter 5. Are COVID-19 fiscal recovery measures bridging or extending the...
This chapter explores three questions: 1) How could COVID-19 related public spending bridge the emissions gap? 2) What are the characteristics of fiscal rescue and recovery... -
Emissions Gap Report 2021: The Heat Is On – A World of Climate Promises Not...
Each year, the Emissions Gap Report provides an updated assessment of the gap between i) estimated future global GHG emissions if countries implement their climate mitigation... -
Emissions Gap Report 2020 - Key Messages
Despite a brief dip in carbon dioxide emissions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the world is still heading for a temperature rise in excess of 3°C this century – far beyond the... -
Chapter 4. Bridging the Gap - Implications of Current COVID-19 Fiscal Rescue...
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented health and socioeconomic challenges – several of which will continue to have a profound effect on global society for many years... -
Chapter 6. Emerging consequences of COVID-19 on adaptation planning and...
This chapter aims to synthesize the literature that describes how COVID-19 has impacted country-level “adaptive capacity” (see the glossary for a definition and discussion...