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The benefits of plastic are undeniable. The material is cheap, lightweight and easy to make. These qualities have led to a boom in the production of plastic over the past...

The latest edition of this annual report outlines the latest developments, signs and signals in the financing of renewable power and fuels. Full of statistics, charts and...

Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2017, published on April 6th by UN Environment, the Frankfurt School-UNEP Collaborating Centre, and Bloomberg New Energy Finance,...

From the beginning of the use of the concept, sustainable consumption and production (SCP) has been related to both poverty eradication and sustainable development. The purpose...

The third iteration of the AMWG’s Materiality Series focuses on climate change. The report mainly takes the form of a review of key financial analyst research on climate change,...

In order to achieve the call ‘From Waste to Resources’, an integrated waste policy and management, which addresses environmental impacts along the whole life-cycle of products,...

The SPP impact study is a joint project of UNEP and of the Swiss-led Marrakech Task Force on SPP. The study aims at demonstrating the benefits of sustainable public procurement...

“Green industrial policy: Concept, policies, country Experiences” is a joint publication by UN Environment and the German Development Institute/ Deutsches Institut für...

The scope of this study is pollution from marine plastic in Southeast Asia and East Asia, with a focus on the 13 member states of ASEAN+3: Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia,...

This report aims to help banks begin to address the “Strategy” element of the TCFD recommendations, which requires forward-looking scenario-based assessments of risks and...

Renewable energy set new records in 2015 for dollar investment, the amount of new capacity added and the relative importance of developing countries in that growth. All this...

The G20 Global Summit on Financing Energy Efficiency, Innovation and Clean Technology was held on June 12th, 2019 in Tokyo, Japan. It gathered over 140 senior executives of...

The Chinese government recognizes that in order to sustain its economic growth without further damaging the environment, it must change its policies. The government made...

This report compares Green Public Procurement (GPP) programs from four leading Asian countries (China, Japan, Korea and Thailand) to understand what the frameworks and key...

This report assesses the complementarities between these two indices and discusses their main similarities and differences. It also presents the results from the global...

A number of environmental non-governmental organizations ENGOs have taken substantial measures to control marine litter in China. However, in comparison to other member states...

Report based on the workshop on the Economic and Societal Impacts Associated with the 1982-83 Worldwide Climate Anomalies, 11-13 November 1985, Lugano, Switzerland. But the main...

The report Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2018, published by UN Environment, the Frankfurt School-UNEP Collaborating Centre, and Bloomberg New Energy Finance,...

The objective of NOWPAP is to protect the regional marine environment under international cooperation between the four member states. NOWPAP initiated marine litter (ML)...

This report analyzes 2019 investment trends, and clean energy commitments made by countries and corporations for the next decade. It finds commitments equivalent to 826 GW of...