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French Polynesia comprises approximately 130 islands, including one hundred of which are atolls and thirty high islands somewhat larger. In fact, all these islands are very...

“Green approaches to COVID-19 recovery: Policy note for parliamentarians,” is a joint publication of UNEP and the Inter-Parliamentary Union. The note guides states in developing...

This report focuses on presenting the scientific background of air quality in Bishkek based on data analysis of available air quality monitoring data from Bishkek, and using...

Building on extensive data, the analysis throughout this paper is a first attempt to improve the understanding of the sustainable finance ecosystem, its partnerships, actors and...

UNEP undertook a preliminary assessment of the resource-demand and operating practices of two proposed African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) camps, in Mogadishu (HQ Camp),...

The report identifies and describes the major environmental challenges presently facing the Republic of the Marshall Islands. The document represents the first ever government...

UNEP-WCMC has provided technical support to the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to conduct a major study of more than 300 scientific literatures to...

This report describes the relevance of digital finance within the context of sustainable finance, the consequential G20 role, and the SDGs. It provides a framework to highlight...

This report reveals that an expansion of renewable energy in the power sector in Latin America and the Caribbean instead of continuing a fossil fuel path, including natural gas,...

Managing risk is central to the effective functioning and stability of financial institutions. All capital is deployed based on expected ‘risk-adjusted’ returns. If...

For several thousands of years humankind was freely using as well as exchanging biological and genetic resources around the world for betterment of life. This situation has now...

This publication is a summary of the first week of the training workshops, containing the amended versions of the lecture notes prepared by two resource persons from the British...

This report reviews the past and present status of natural resources and their uses and indicates what trends are occurring to determinc future resource uses and impacts of...

This study represents a significant effort to incorporate environmental and social risks into mainstream risk strategies of Mexican financial institutions, and to capitalize on...

Asian Development Outlook 2009 (ADO 2009) is the 21st edition of the annual comprehensive economic report on the developing member economies of the Asian Development Bank. ADO...

This paper presents the findings of this stocktake, which drew on CISL’s ability to cross boundaries between multiple fields of expertise and engage deeply with its global...

The main purpose of this project was to explore where the last remote wilderness areas, resorts for nature, man and biodiversity can be found in the Arctic, as well as the...

Owing to the uniqueness of the Iraqi Marshlands ecosystem and its socio-cultural heritage, the technical and programmatic responses needed to address the above priorities may be...

In order to respond to the research question that seeks to better understand how digital technologies can enhance green finance within the Swiss context and provide policy...

This State of the EnWonment Report provides a description of the environment covering elements of the Cook lslands' physical and biological features, and demographic and...