UNEP's participation at EU Green Week 2013
Tackling the Post-2015 development agenda and the sustainable development goals (SDGs) is a massive global challenge. This EU Green Week, UNEP co-organised a session to help kick-start the debate following the report of the UN Secretary-General's High Level Panel (HLP) released on May 30th. Plenty of questions are left in the SDG and Post-2015 discussions. The panel also covered lessons from the MDGs, the structural issues in developing global goals, the universality of SDGs, how to construct the subsequent targets and indicators. > Read more & watch panelist interviews
UNEP presented the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) at Green Week and its work to catalyse fast action to reduce short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs), such as black carbon and methane. Such reductions have the potential to prevent a significant proportion of the estimated 6 million deaths annually from air-pollution related disease, avoid annual crop losses of over 30 million tons annually, and slow near-term global warming by up to 0.5⁰ C (2010-2050). > Read more
Achieving resource efficiency and decoupling in pursuit of climate mitigation and alleviation of air pollution was the focus of the International Resource Panel’s (IRP) session. The Panel presented findings from two IRP studies: “low carbon technologies for electricity production, environmental benefits, risks and trade-offs,” and “environmental risks and challenges of anthropogenic metals flows and cycles.” > Read more
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UNEP on food security: an ecosystems approach
"The future of food security on the current trajectory is a road to nowhere"
UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner explains the importance of an ecosystems approach to make agriculture more efficient, more sustainable, and to create more intelligent markets. “The future of food security on the current trajectory is a road to nowhere, and to repeat the statistics that we need to grow 50-70% more food without answering the questions, on what land, with which water and with what kind of seed diversity, is a discussion that merits much greater attention.” > Read the full article and watch an extract of the interview
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193 countries in new 'United Nations Environment Assembly'
The UNEP Governing Council - home to the world's largest annual gathering of environment ministers - will in future be known as the United Nations Environment Assembly of UNEP, following a new resolution by the UN General Assembly. The re-designation endorses a decision by governments at the 1st Universal Session of the UNEP Governing Council, held in February under the theme 'Rio+20: From Outcome to Implementation,' to rename UNEP's governance following the recent strengthening and upgrading of the organization to universal membership.
The newly-named United Nations Environment Assembly of UNEP reflects the full and future participation of all 193 UN member states in UNEP's governing body. Prior to 2012, membership had been limited to 58 countries only. > Read more
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Brochure introducing PAGE, which will support 30 countries over the next seven years in building national green economy strategies that will generate new jobs and skills.
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Annex to the report to the right, that gives examples of successful city decoupling projects.
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This report shows that greening global trade is a vital step to achieving sustainable development, and developing countries are well positioned to help catalyze this transition. Read more. |
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Report on City-Level Decoupling that concludes that achieving inclusive sustainable development for all requires 'decoupling' city-based economic growth rates from the unsustainable consumption of finite natural resources.
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Annual report produced jointly by UNEP and Bloomberg's New Energy Renewable Energy that reviews the previous year's trends in renewable energy investment.
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