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UN Environment is taking the lead in establishing an innovative strategy to engage and partner with faith-based organizations to deliver on Agenda 2030.

In the context of supporting biodiversity conservation, sustainable development, and poverty reduction, this policy paper portrays the critical role that ecosystem management...

With rising global demand for food, there is an urgent need to find climate-smart ways to intensify agricultural production. As the population expands, agribusinesses not only...

The Global Chemicals Outlook II has been prepared in response to Governing Council decision 27/12, adopted in 2013, which requested the Executive Director to continue work on...

This policy guidance serves two purposes: • To highlight key features of urban agriculture taking an urban-rural systems perspective, drawing on a synthesis literature review...

The project’s objective was to help the government of the Republic of Moldova to improve the design of existing instruments and develop new ones in order to provide incentives...

The International Environmental Technology Centre of the United Nations Environment Programme organized a UNEP Symposium on Plastic Waste Problems on 22nd May 2019 in Osaka,...

The main goals of this foresight brief are to: • highlight major opportunities and challenges in the mainstreaming of EVs, • examine the sustainability case of EVs by focusing...

In 2018, World Environment Day reached new heights. With India as host country, the world rallied around a movement to “Beat Plastic Pollution”. This simple yet ambitious call...

Unlike most industrial chemicals, pesticides and fertilizers (both inorganic and organic) are deliberately released to the environment to provide specific functions. These...

The objective of this policy brief is to give an overview of the energy transition of China to attain a cleaner energy future. In general, the brief includes a discussion on the...

These guidelines for policy makers apply a lifestyles perspective to the sustainability challenge, using climate change as a focal point and providing policy direction to how...

Its objective was to help the government of Ukraine to improve the design of existing instruments and develop new ones in order to provide incentives for both reducing pollution...

This policy brief seeks to outline how forests can be a key part of a green economy that provides opportunities for innovative solutions to forest management. Forests are key...

For the first time in several years, 2012 saw a decline, not a new record, for global investment in renewable energy. As last year’s Global Trends report warned, dollar...

The Working Group I contribution to the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report describes progress in understanding of the human and natural drivers of climate change, observed climate...

This study identifies and assesses the impacts of green investments in key sectors in support of a transition to a green economy. The Government of Belarus has actively sought...

Following priority actions were identified under the current objective: a. Identify and disseminate measures to prevent the generation of and promote environmentally sound...

By focusing on the extent to which the environmental dimension of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has been addressed in the voluntary national reviews (VNRs) submitted...