68 datasets found

With a population of 250 million, Indonesia is the fourth most populous country and second-largest plastic polluter in the world after China. The country produces 3.2 million...

The overall purpose of this brief is to provide policy and management recommendations for addressing and reducing the impacts of plastics on shallow water coral reefs, based on...

This report aims to make a small contribution to the above challenge by compiling practical cases of marine and coastal management from different regions that have integrated a...

The Ministry of Energy, Science, Technology, Environment & Climate Change (MESTECC) is collaborating with UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the Coordinating Body on the Seas...

The SEA circular project - "Reducing marine litter by addressing the management of the plastic value chain in South-East Asia" – aims to reduce marine plastic litter by ensuring...

On 20 May 2021, chemical fume emissions erupted on the Singapore-flagged MV X-Press Pearl containership as it anchored around 9 nautical miles (17 kilometres) northwest of the...

The State of the Convention Area (SOCAR)is the fi rst such region-wide assessment undertaken by the Secretariat, and is a baseline assessment of the state of the Wider Caribbean...

2021 was a year in which environmental issues reached an unprecedented prominence on the global stage. The eyes of the world focused on the United Nations Climate Change...

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) North America Office, the Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative (MRCTI), the University of Georgia’s Debris Tracker,...

Addressing marine plastic pollution is an urgent action, considering the rising levels of plastics in the environment and the impacts to coastal and marine ecosystems. The...

This study identifies how risks related to plastic pollution play out across insurance lines and asset classes in which insurers invest. It argues that insurers should take an...

Based on the literature review and action research in two selected Asian countries, Indonesia (Southeast Asia) and India (South Asia), this report identifies the urgency of...

This report outlines the findings from surveys targeting consumers and food and beverage businesses, conducted from January to April 2020 in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines,...

This case study focuses largely on recycling and the role that the government (Petaling Jaya City Council or MBPJ) as well as the private sector (Nestlé Malaysia and its...

This case study on Waste Segregation at Source: Solving Plastic Pollution aims to reduce the usage of single-use plastic, promote waste segregation at source, increase the...

This assessment describes the far-reaching impacts of plastics across the planet and in our oceans. The assessment sets out to address four key questions to help guide future...

Over the last year, UN Environment supported Member States as they stepped up their efforts to build a better, cleaner and more equitable world. While it was a challenging year,...

Food packaging’s ever-increasing reliance on single-use plastic formats along with the persistence of plastics in the environment, adds to the long-reaching – and as yet poorly...

This knowledge compendium has been developed to serve as a useful reference compiling all the publications that SEA circular and its partners have released as at December 2021....

The National Source Inventory (NSI) report is intended to collect available data in Cambodia on plastic products lifecycle and flows, waste generation, composition and disposal...