The UN ActNow campaign engages the general public to take meaningful action against climate change and foster change on an individual level. It offers various opportunities to take part in challenges and provides concrete action ideas.
This report quantifies public and private finance flows to nature-based solutions to tackle global challenges related to biodiversity loss, land degradation and climate change.
This brief discusses issues at COP27 related to loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change.
One of the focus areas of GO4SDGs is expanding youth opportunities for green jobs to achieve progress to meet the 2030 Agenda. As a legacy initiative of Stockholm+50, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) through GO4SDGs, the International Labour Organization (ILO), and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Generation Unlimited are...
Sustainable living means understanding how our lifestyle choices impact the world around us and finding ways for everyone to live better and lighter. GO4SDGs and UNEP’s Sustainable Lifestyles Team have set up the Sustainable Lifestyles Action Academy. The Academy offers educational tools to train youth, youth intermediaries, influencers, and UNEP personnel...
This economic analysis report is structured around two arguments. Firstly, natural resources and ecosystem services in particular have significant contribution to economic growth and poverty reduction. Secondly, failure to manage natural resources, conserve and protect the ecosystem will result in costs of degradation that will compromise medium and long term sustainable development. An ecosystem services approach has been used which is capable of capturing aspects of the environment and natural resources that are usually neglected either because they do not have market values or they cannot readily be quantified. The approach is supported by Case Studies of Rugezi Wetlands and Gishwati Forest.
This report presents insights from a series of investigations to explore the poverty-environment nexus in Malawi and to identify sustainable pathways for poverty reduction by quantifying poverty and environment linkages. The study was commissioned by the Government of Malawi through the Ministry of Finance, Economic Planning and Development with financial and technical support from the UNDP-UNEP Poverty-Environment Initiative.
The objective of the present assessment is to determine to what extent the Rubaya green village demonstration project has been successful in raising the well-being of the beneficiaries while, at the same time, ensuring the sustainable use of natural resources and social cohesion. The project efficiency was determined to be high, leading to benefits surpassing the costs by 15% to 35%. The potential net benefits to Rwanda, the report found, justify the replication of the Rubaya green village demonstration project and to make the case for the Government and development partners to invest in the widespread replication of the project.
This report highlights the work of the Economics for Nature global partnership, which has pushed for system-wide change to maintain, protect, invest in and restore nature.
This briefing calls on policymakers to prioritize gender-responsive implementation of the CBD's Global Biodiversity Framework, using the Gender Plan of Action as a mechanism, and to integrate gender into budgets.