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A special compendium of the UNEP Foresight Briefs based on the first 30 issues covering the period from 2017 to 2022. This compendium summarises a range of environmental emerging issues and provides a short description of each issue along with key recommendations. Also indicated is how the emerging issues link to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), UNEP’s Strategic priorities and focus areas and Global Environmental Monitoring during the 5 year review period.
Foresight Briefs highlight a hotspot of environmental change, feature an emerging science topic, or discuss a contemporary environmental issue. They provide a systematic way of examining the possible future outcomes of emerging environmental issues that can also inform decision-making today. UNEP’s Foresight Briefs aim to present emerging issues, systemic insights, and possible policy solutions on a wide range of topics related to our environment in a short readable document.
UNEP Foresight,Emerging Issues and Futures UNEP Foresight is focused on emerging environmental issues and that global problems and challenges faced. In order to address interconnected and complex global challenges, systems thinking, simulation modeling and horizon scanning approaches are used and through our analysis provide policy insights.
Foresight Briefs Presenting emerging issues, systemic insights, and possible policy solutions. UN System Informal Strategic Foresight Network (HLCP) Proposals for UNEP's collaboration in the High-Level Committee on Programmes, Informal Strategic Foresight Network. Foresight Projects Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants (MIKE) Population Dynamics Modeling. Climate-related security risk modeling.
Recently Published Foresight Briefs The 30th Edition of the Foresight Brief considers the environmental impact of the increasing use of charcoal as a source of energy and in metallurgical applications. Charcoal as a global commodity: is it sustainable? 30 / 30 Plastics in agriculture - an environmental challenge 29 / 30 The shrinking Arctic Sea Ice 28 / 30 The growing footprint of digitalisation 27 / 30 People's livelihood and cities - building back greener 26 / 30 Working with plants, soils, and water 25 / 30 “Sargassum: Brown tide or golden jewel?” 24 / 30 Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Challenges 23 / 30 Desert locusts’ upsurges: A harbinger of emerging climate change-induced crises? Arabic 22 / 30 The need to eliminate lead paint globall 21 / 30 Food loss and waste in the Sustainable Development Goals’ nexus 20 / 30 Blockchain technology and environmental sustainability Chinese | Spanish 19 / 30 Unveiling plastic pollution in oceans 18 / 30 Challenges for the growth of the electric vehicle market Chinese | Spanish 17 / 30 Seagrasses, the forgotten ecosystems 16 / 30 Growing popularity of alternate food systems for environment and health 15 / 30 Building a digital ecosystem for the planet 14 / 30 Putting Carbon back where it belongs - the potential of carbon sequestration in the soil 13 / 30 Environment, climate change and security 12 / 30 We are losing the Little things that run the world 11 / 30 Alternatives for the use of glyphosate 10 / 30 Revisiting ocean acidification, food security and our earth system 9 / 30 Faith for earth 8 / 30 Smoke-haze: A transboundary air pollution issue in Southeast Asia 7 / 30 Hacking economics for people and planet 6 / 30 Emerging sponge cities 5 / 30 Lake Urmia: Signs of recovery 4 / 30 The Changing Aral Sea 3 / 30 Marine plastics litter and microplastics 2 / 30 Saving Lake Faguibine 1 / 30
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