SIDS Partnerships Briefs - Oceans, Seas & Biodiversity

THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SMALL ISLAND DEVELOPING STATES (SIDS Conference) will be held from 1 to 4 September 2014 in Apia, Samoa, with the overarching theme as "The sustainable developmen

SIDS Partnerships Briefs - Social Development of SIDS, Health and NCDs, Youth and Women

THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SMALL ISLAND DEVELOPING STATES (SIDS Conference) will be held from 1 to 4 September 2014 in Apia, Samoa, with the overarching theme as "The sustainable developmen

SIDS Partnerships Briefs - Sustainable Economic Development

THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SMALL ISLAND DEVELOPING STATES (SIDS Conference) will be held from 1 to 4 September 2014 in Apia, Samoa, with the overarching theme as "The sustainable developmen

SIDS Partnerships Briefs - Sustainable Energy

THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SMALL ISLAND DEVELOPING STATES (SIDS Conference) will be held from 1 to 4 September 2014 in Apia, Samoa, with the overarching theme as "The sustainable developmen

SIDS Partnerships Briefs - Water and Sanitation, Food Security and Waste Management

THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SMALL ISLAND DEVELOPING STATES (SIDS Conference) will be held from 1 to 4 September 2014 in Apia, Samoa, with the overarching theme as "The sustainable developmen

Compacts for Equality: Towards a Sustainable Future

Position document presented at ECLAC´s Thirty-fifth session, Lima, Peru, May 2014.

Strategies for low-carbon development in megacities in Latin America

"Estrategias de desarrollo bajo en carbono en megaciudades de América Latina". Available in Spanish. A study on economic, regulatory and technological measures related to urban infrastructure for clim

Economics of Climate Change in Argentina

La Economía del Cambio Climático en Argentina (In Spanish)

Adapation to Climate Change in Latin America´s Megacities

Adaptación al cambio climático en megaciudades de América Latin. In Spanish

Social Panorama of Latin America 2013

Fiscal Overview of Latin America and the Caribbean, 2014: Towards Greater Quality in Public Finance

Panorama fiscal de América Latina y el Caribe 2014: hacia una mayor calidad de las finanzas públicas. - In Spanish

Urban Responses to Climate Change in Latin America

Respuestas urbanas al cambio climático en América Latina. In Spanish.

Natural resources: situation and trends for a regional development agenda in Latin America and the C

Recursos naturales: situación y tendencias para una agenda de desarrollo regional en América Latina y el Caribe. In Spanish

Caribbean forum: Shaping a sustainable development agenda to address the Caribbean reality in the tw

This document "reviews a number of factors and issues of importance to Caribbean society, economy and ecology as countries in the region seek to grapple with the fall out from the crises in food, fuel

HLPF Issue Briefs 1: From Rio+20 to post-2015: towards an integrated and universal development agend

In the Outcome document of the Special event to follow up efforts made to- wards achieving the Millennium Development Goals held on 25 September 2013, the Member States decided to launch a process of

HLPF Issue Briefs 6: Island Voices, Global Choices: Promoting Genuine and Durable Partnerships

As stated in the Rio+20 Outcome document, ‘The Future We Want’, Small Island Developing States (SIDS) remain a special case for sustainable development in view of their unique and particular vulnerabi

HLPF Issue Briefs 2: The Regional Dimension in the Post-2015

The outcome document of the United Nation General Assembly Special Event on MDGs (September 2013) recognized that sustainable development is at the core of the post-2015 development agenda. Prior to t

The 10 Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns (10YFP)

At the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), in June 2012, the world’s Heads of States adopted the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production Pa

Prototype Global Sustainable Development Report - Executive Summary

The Rio+20 outcome document (paragraph 85k) calls for a Global Sustainable Development Report, in order to bring together dispersed information and existing assessments and to strengthen the science p

Prototype Global Sustainable Development Report

Sustainability science emerged as a new inter-disciplinary endeavour around the year 2000. In 2012 alone, more than 40,000 authors from 2,200 cities around the world published some 150,000 articles on

Building more inclusive, sustainable and prosperous societies in Europe and Central Asia – A common

The report maps out the lessons learnt across the United Nations system in Europe and Central Asia while confronting the global challenge of balancing economic growth, environmental sustainability and

Inclusive and Sustainable Development: Perspectives from Europe and Central Asia on the Post-2015 De

Summary Report of the Regional Consultation on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, Istanbul, Turkey, 7–8 November 2013

UNV Overview: Advocating for volunteerism post-2015

This Overview presents UNV's vision on volunteerism and sustainable development, along with examples of volunteers' work in the post-2015 context. The post-2015 process offers an unprecedented opportu

UNV Issue brief: Basic services and volunteerism. Considerations for the post-2015 agenda

Volunteer action, when well facilitated, can be a particularly effective mechanism to foster support and complement the state provision of essential services across a number of sectors. This Issue Br

SD in Action - Special Report on Voluntary Commitments and Partnerships for Sustainable Development

Partnerships and voluntary commitments for sustainable development are multi-stakeholder initiatives voluntarily undertaken by Governments, intergovernmental organizations, major groups and others sta

Issue 3: Facilitating a Sustainability Transition in Developing Countries

Proposal for a global Advanced Research Project Agency for Sustainable Development Ambuj Sagar and Arun Majumdar While the world as a whole has made enormous strides in the past decades in advan

Diesel Engines Exhausts: Myths and Realities

The objective of this UNECE Discussion Paper is: (a) to offer a balanced view on the on‐going debate about the harmful effects of diesel engine exhaust emissions on human health and the environm

Brief 7: Relevance for the Small Island Developing States

In 2012, at the Rio+20 Conference, UN Member States decided to establish a universal, intergovernmental high-level political forum (HLPF) that would, as one of its functions, “strengthen the science-p

Natural Resources Forum, Special section on oceans

This special section on oceans and seas of Natural Resources Forum provides valuable background information for the ongoing oceans-related processes and discussions. It contains two papers which are d

Migration, Environment, Climate Change

IOM's 'Big Issue' Migration Newsletter No.