There are now more than 100 million people overall displaced, around 75% of whom are hosted by low or middle-income countries and living in protracted circumstances. Host countries are struggling to meet the needs of internally...
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Panama City, June 25, 2021 - The Roadmap for the Progressive Closure of Dumpsites in Latin America and the Caribbean aims to establish the requirements and necessary steps to eliminate dumpsites in the region by 2030 and, thus...
Rich biodiversity in the Americas makes a large contribution to the quality of life of its people, helping to reduce poverty while strengthening economies and livelihoods everywhere. Growing human-induced challenges and...
Technical study on deploying electric mobility in the transport sector in Latin America presented by UN Environment during The Climate Change conference (COP22) in Marrakech in November 2016. The study is in Spanish and has been...
A new report, Plan 4C: A Competitive and Climate Compatible Cartagena outlines the strategies in place for the World Heritage City of Cartagena, Colombia to become an icon of climate compatible development, where the risk of...
In 2011, two scientific global assessments coordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) identified a number of win-win measures for near-term climate change and clean air benefits. Implementation of these cost...
Publication Date: 2014 GEO SIDS Outlook is a contribution to the 2014 Third International UN Conference on Small Island Developing States, which has an overarching theme of the sustainable development of Small Island Developing...
Publication Date: 2014 This is the 9th status report since the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (GCRMN) was founded in 1995 as the data arm of the International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) to document the ecological condition...
Publication Date: June 2014 The inclusion of green policy objectives in Barbados can be traced to the National Strategic Plan (2006-2025) and the Budget Speech of 2007. The process was given further impetus in 2009 when the then...
Publication Date: 2013 This report highlights how partnerships between countries in the South are contributing to a global paradigm shift. It provides a snapshot of the myriad of projects and activities that are sparking new...