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Oceans: Marine Pollution: Keep the Oceans Clean - SDG Policy Brief No. 001
Marine pollution is the result of deliberate or accidental discharge of untreated wastewater, dumping of solid wastes and other polluted runoff from a variety of land-based... -
Environmental Laws & Regulations in China and Rules of WTO (A...
Environmental regulation and the rules on trade are impacting one another. This compilation, in the form of bilingual Chinese-English version, has collected the major... -
Key Messages and Executive Summary - Making Peace with Nature: A Scientific...
This report presents a flexible scientific blueprint for how the climate change, biodiversity and pollution emergencies can be tackled jointly within the framework of the SDGs.... -
Green and Sustainable Chemistry: Framework Manual - Executive Summary
This Framework Manual introduces, in a structured way, various facets of green and sustainable chemistry, with the intention to foster general learning, reflection and scaling-... -
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... -
UNEP and Indigenous Peoples: A Partnership in Caring for the Environment:...
The objective of this Policy Guidance to UNEP is to better understand and build on the Indigenous Peoples’ rights, knowledge, practices and systems that provide the framework... -
Faith for Earth - Foresight Brief No. 008 - May 2018
To several religions, nature is sacred, has intrinsic value, and therefore demands reverent care (Taylor 2010). Utilizing the agility of these beliefs in addressing climate... -
The Changing Aral Sea - Foresight Brief No. 003 October 2017
The Aral Sea was once the world’s fourth largest inland lake. Its hydrological balance is strongly determined by inflows from the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers which are fed by... -
Saving Lake Faguibine - Foresight Brief No. 001 - August 2017
The Faguibine system, located in the Tombouktou region in Mali is a series of five interlinked lakes (Télé, Takara, Gouber, Kamango and Faguibine). In the late 19th century the... -
Hallazgos del sexto informe “Perspectivas del medio ambiente mundial” (GEO-6)
Mensajes principales: - El deterioro el planeta está aumentando de manera rápida: Cada vez hay menos margen de maniobra para actuar. - Un entorno saludable es fundamental para... -
Global Environment Outlook: For Life on Earth
This volume-GE0-1- is the first product of the GEO Project. It provides a snapshot of a process in the making and aims to move the process along by documenting its progress. The... -
Introduction and Context - Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6): Healthy...
Under the theme of ‘Healthy Planet, Healthy People,’ the sixth Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6) is an integrated assessment which considers various scienti c perspectives and... -
GEO for Youth in Latin America and the Caribbean: Open your Eyes to the Environment
This is a report on the state of the environment in the region, in addition to being a real source of inspiration for people and institutions to contribute to the safeguarding... -
Global Linkages: A Graphic Look at the Changing Arctic
The new report “Global Linkages – A graphic look at the changing Arctic”, produced by UN Environment and its collaborating center GRID-Arendal, is a set of maps and graphics,... -
GEO Matters - May 2019: And the outlook for 2030 and beyond is… uncertain...
On 13th March 2019, the world’s environment ministers agreed to the sixth edition of the Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6), UN Environment’s flagship integrated environmental...