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It is fitting that as Iraq issues its first comprehensive report on the biological diversity of the country, the United Nations designates 2010 as the International Year of...

The purpose of this compendium is to present good practices relating to the use of human rights obligations and commitments to inform, support and strengthen environmental...

The Integrated Environmental Assessment (IEA) Report of Central Asia is one of the outputs of UNEP’s capacity building programme. The report identifies key environmental issues...

One of the most significant innovations in addressing urban environmental problems in recent years has been the emergence of a new kind of city-wide initiative to address...

Marine litter is a vicious killer of marine mammals, seabirds and many other life forms in the marine and coastal environment. It also entails substantial economic costs and...

Success stories on the implementation of Montreal Protocol in Ghana.

French Polynesia comprises approximately 130 islands, including one hundred of which are atolls and thirty high islands somewhat larger. In fact, all these islands are very...

“Green approaches to COVID-19 recovery: Policy note for parliamentarians,” is a joint publication of UNEP and the Inter-Parliamentary Union. The note guides states in developing...

This report focuses on presenting the scientific background of air quality in Bishkek based on data analysis of available air quality monitoring data from Bishkek, and using...

Building on extensive data, the analysis throughout this paper is a first attempt to improve the understanding of the sustainable finance ecosystem, its partnerships, actors and...

UNEP undertook a preliminary assessment of the resource-demand and operating practices of two proposed African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) camps, in Mogadishu (HQ Camp),...

The report identifies and describes the major environmental challenges presently facing the Republic of the Marshall Islands. The document represents the first ever government...

UNEP-WCMC has provided technical support to the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to conduct a major study of more than 300 scientific literatures to...

This report describes the relevance of digital finance within the context of sustainable finance, the consequential G20 role, and the SDGs. It provides a framework to highlight...

This report reveals that an expansion of renewable energy in the power sector in Latin America and the Caribbean instead of continuing a fossil fuel path, including natural gas,...

Managing risk is central to the effective functioning and stability of financial institutions. All capital is deployed based on expected ‘risk-adjusted’ returns. If...

For several thousands of years humankind was freely using as well as exchanging biological and genetic resources around the world for betterment of life. This situation has now...

This publication is a summary of the first week of the training workshops, containing the amended versions of the lecture notes prepared by two resource persons from the British...

This report reviews the past and present status of natural resources and their uses and indicates what trends are occurring to determinc future resource uses and impacts of...

This study represents a significant effort to incorporate environmental and social risks into mainstream risk strategies of Mexican financial institutions, and to capitalize on...