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Set up by the United Nations Environment Programme in 2006 together with Yale University and major scientific publishers, the OARE programme enables academic, research and...

Air pollution and climate change are a deadly duo for Africa, and must be tackled together. Air pollutants and greenhouse gases often share the same sources and can be even more...

The NDC Action project supports Jordan in translating its National Determined Contributions (NDC) into actual plans and activities that can be funded and implemented. It...

Eco-innovation is the development and application of a business model, shaped by a new business strategy that incorporates sustainability throughout all business operations...

This fact sheet highlights the key partners and components of Afghanistan Resilience Consortium’s four-year project “Strengthening the Resilience of Afghanistan’s Vulnerable...

Pursuant to paragraph 4 of decision 26/11 of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme, the document provides a progress report on the work of the...

This document summarises a paper produced by UNEP synthesising the current state of knowledge and key actions to translate Nature-based Solutions (NbS) commitments into action....

This note provides an update on the negotiations towards the adoption of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). The Conference of the Parties, at its fourteenth...

The environmental and urban challenges outlined in this report require urgent and sustained attention from everyone involved in building or managing cities. To achieve...

This Summary report reviews the Initiative’s successes and failures, and its responses to these. In so doing, it documents how robust and integrated evidence—along with changes...

The Task Force on Monitoring (Monitoring TF) brings together 277 technical experts from 100 organizations tasked with collaboratively developing a monitoring framework for the...

Climate change was recently added to the wide range of agelong social challenges stemming from urbanisation. These challenges are becoming increasingly urgent to address. This...

This report responds to Resolution 4/8 by the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) and aims to inform the international community about the current situation of specific...

Massive episodic inundations of floating sargassum seaweed have been impacting shorelines on both sides of the tropical Atlantic since 2011. These influxes are now widely...

This summary document presents the main findings of the technical document in plain language. Recognizing the relevance of the results of the Global Mercury Assessment 2018 for...

This GRID Data Release Policy statement describes the types of data which have been collected, the archive and the guidelines for release of the data.

This Summary Brief deals with Sustainable Development Goal 16, the environmental rule of law and the link between human rights and a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment....

Charcoal is typically made from trees, and is perceived to be a renewable resource, and is used in both low and middle-income countries as well as high-income countries. There...

This synthesis report describes the main themes of the discussions held at the convening as well as participants’ reflections on the potential role of UNEP in leveraging digital...

Food loss and waste, occurring on different stages of food production, distribution and consumption cycles, is now a truly global phenomenon. It results in humanity losing about...