The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is pleased to present you the fifth issue of the ACP MEAs 3 monthly Digest published on the first Monday of every month. As an informative publication, the Digest provides a...
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The State of Ocean Governance in the Western Indian Ocean Region, developed by the Nairobi Convention in partnership with the Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association, reviews the status and trends in ocean governance in...
The International Resource Panel highlights in its Mineral Resource Governance in the 21st Century Report that the mining sector, if carefully managed, presents enormous opportunities for advancing sustainable development...
This novel publication provides an overview of the knowledge gap and enforcement challenges in the illegal trade of toxic, hazardous and severely restricted chemicals, as well as in non-existing or low areas of chemical...
Publication Date: July 2013 This edition of the Global Environmental Alert Service explains how satellite imagery can tell stories about environmental change by providing visual evidence of both positive and negative large-scale...
Publication Date: June 2013 Food security globally is highly dependent on crop production, which has been subjected to increasing pressures emanating from both an increasing demand for food and a deteriorating health of the...
Publication Date: June 2013 This report states that supporting smallholder farmers to play a greater role in food production and natural resource stewardship is one of the quickest ways to lift over one billion people out of...
Publication Date: June 2013 This paper calls for cooperation on Omo-Turkana transboundary water issues. A number of transboundary water agreements exist in Africa. However, many of these agreements are limited to larger basins...
Publication Date: 2011 Africa is currently the least urbanised region in the world, but this is changing fast. Of the billion people living on the African continent, about 40 per cent lives in urban areas. The urban population in...
Publication Date: April 2013 Around three-quarters of the world's natural resources are already consumed in cities, and the proportion of the global population living in urban areas is set to rise to 70 per cent by 2050. At the...