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Green Economy and Trade Opportunities Project - Synthesis Report
This synthesis report summarizes lessons from the UNEP Green Economy and Trade Opportunities Project, which identified, assessed and harnessed trade opportunities arising from... -
Addressing Smallholder Resilience in Coffee Production in the Central...
Coffee production in the Central Highlands faces a multitude of challenges; decades of intensive cultivation and expansion onto marginal land has degraded the soil quality and... -
Voices from the Land: Restoring Soils and Enriching Lives
As vital to our existence as air or water, land is one of our greatest shared assets – and degradation of that land one our most pressing common challenges. Unchecked... -
Status of Research, Legal and Policy Efforts on Marine Plastics in ASEAN +3:...
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,... -
Action Plan to Promote Responsible Aquaculture Standards in Vietnam
The application of internationally recognized sustainability standards in Vietnam's aquaculture sector is increasingly necessary, not only to promote economic efficiency and... -
Global Environment Monitoring Systems: The Potential Socio-Economic Effects...
This report summarizes the major conclusions of three regional studies of the potential impact of climate change undertaken by national governments with the support of the... -
City-Level Decoupling: Urban Resource Flows and the Governance of...
These cases were selected to showcase innovative and visionary approaches to sustainable infrastructure change across a broad range of contexts, and are intended to demonstrate... -
Chemicals of Concern in Electronics: Review of Legislative and Regulatory Approaches
Chemicals in products and hazardous substances within the life cycle of electrical and electronic products have been longstanding emerging policy issues under the Strategic... -
Project “Stimulating the Demand and Supply of Sustainable Products through...
This Status Assessment report aims at drawing the overall portrait of the current public procurement status in Vietnam with a view to understand the actions needed and gaps to... -
Sustainability Standards in the Vietnamese Aquaculture Sector
This study contains a survey involving 55 farms and processors in both shrimp and pangasius in Vietnam. It shows positive results for the application of sustainable... -
Desk Review on Nutrient Pollution as a Regional and Transboundary Challenge...
The Coordinating Body on the Seas of East Asia (COBSEA), one of the UNEP-administered Regional Seas Programme, commissioned a desk review from January to March 2021, to compile... -
Perceptions on Plastic Waste: Insights, Interventions and Incentives to...
This report outlines the findings from surveys targeting consumers and food and beverage businesses, conducted from January to April 2020 in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines,... -
State of Gender Equality and Climate Change in ASEAN
The regional flagship report, State of Gender Equality and Climate Change in ASEAN, analyzes the gendered impacts of climate change in the Southeast Asia and suggests ways to... -
The Status of Coral Reef Management in SouthEast Asia: A Gap Analysis
This report summarizes the results of a coral reef management gap analysis undertaken by the authors as part of a William B. Fulbright scholarship with supplemental support from... -
The State of Gender Equality and Climate Change in Viet Nam
Now that Viet Nam’s climate pathway to 2030 is set, among the key challenges raised by policy makers are the missing links between gender and climate change priorities and the... -
Marine and Coastal Spatial Planning Policy in the East Asian Seas:...
The objective of this study is to review national and regional legal and policy frameworks to identify key recommended actions towards an enabling policy environment for MCSP... -
Situation Analysis on Marine Protected Areas in the East Asian Seas - 2022
The objectives of this study were to (i) Define the focus, scope, and activities of a COBSEA network of MPAs to strengthen biodiversity conservation and increase resilience to... -
OzoNews Volume XX - 30 March 2020
In this issue: 1. COVID-19 pandemic: Letter from James S. Curlin, Acting Head, OzonAction, to the National Ozone Officers 2. Global efforts on ozone help reverse southern jet... -
International Environmental Law: Multilateral Environmental Agreements
Vietnam’s measures to prevent environmental deterioration and to respond to climate change are increasingly driven by commitments under multilateral environmental agreements on... -
Reducing and Eliminating the Use of Persistent Organic Pesticides: Guidance...
This document is part of a package of UNEP products aimed to facilitate and support the development of initiatives at all levels to reduce and/or eliminate releases of POPs.