The Food Waste Index Report is tracking country-level progress to halve food waste by 2030 (SDG 12.3). First published in 2021, the current report builds on recent and greater datasets and provides an update on the scale of food...
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The world is in the midst of a triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution and waste. The global economy is consuming ever more natural resources, while the world is not on track to meet the...
Our latest report, a collaborative effort with the International Solid Waste Association (ISWA), delves into the critical realm of global waste generation and management. Released as an update since 2018, this report not only...
The recently launched UNEP Annual Report for the year 2023 offers a sobering yet hopeful reflection on the state of our planet. Last year witnessed a troubling trend of broken records and broken promises. From soaring greenhouse...
Healthy wetlands offer economic opportunities, support jobs, and provide livelihoods, but they are being lost. Business as usual is not working. We need international partnerships to mobilise actors and scale finance and...
Greening the Blue Report is a UNEP initiative to engage and support the UN system in the transition towards greater environmental sustainability in the management of its facilities and operations. It provides information on the...
In 2023, temperature records toppled, while storms, floods, droughts and heatwaves caused devastation. UNEP’s Adaptation Gap Report 2023: Underfinanced. Underprepared – Inadequate investment and planning on climate adaptation...
The report proposes a systems change to address the causes of plastic pollution, starting by reducing problematic and unnecessary plastic use, redesigning the system, products and their packaging and combining these with a market...
The report - Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability - cites that "any further delay in concerted anticipatory global action on adaptation and mitigation will miss a brief and rapidly closing window of...
The 2021 Global Waste Survey was designed as a first step to collect the mountain community’s opinion and first-hand experience on waste at a global level. Mountains and polar regions are experiencing the effects of climate change...