ECOSOC Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the SDGs “Session 9: Supporting the implementation of the Technology Facilitation Mechanism – the way forward for joint acti
The Report is compiled by UNEP?s Green Economy Initiative in collaboration with economists and experts worldwide. It demonstrates that the greening of economies is not generally a drag on growth but r
The report indicates that Africa's overall infrastructure investment needs are estimated to be US$93 billion per year and that its largest infrastructure deficiency is in the energy sector, whether me
In its 2011 Year Book, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has highlighted the key emerging issues of phosphorous pollution from fertilizer and plastic debris in the ocean. The 2011 Year Book was re
The present report examines the two themes of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development ? green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication, and the instit
The green economy, within the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication, is one of the two themes of the 2012 Conference on Sustainable Development, to be held in Rio de Janeiro. It e
At the UNCSD?s first Preparatory Committee in May 2010, several delegations requested that the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the United Nations Environment Programme, the U
As an intellectual contribution to the preparations for the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, a.k.a. Rio +20), Boston University?s Frederick S. Pardee Center for the St
This report highlights trends in resource extraction and use as well as key stresses on the world's ecosystems and life-support systems to which human activities are contributing.
This paper lays out a strategy - a Global Green New Deal - for reducing greenhouse gas emissions without sacrificing development.
This policy brief discusses what a 'Global Green New Deal' would look like.
The report calls on policy-makers to accelerate, scale-up and embed investments in the management and restoration of ecosystems.
The advisory group report calls for new initiative to bring clean energy to the poor.
This year?s edition of the AEO finds Africa?s economies weakened by the global recession and at the same time under pressure to make additional efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. The
Agenda 21 is a comprehensive plan of action to be taken globally, nationally and locally by organizations of the United Nations System, Governments, and Major Groups in every area in which human impac
