A Roadmap for Improved Mine Waste Management: Summary Report of the Workshop on Mine Waste

A Roadmap for Improved Mine Waste Management: Summary Report of the Workshop on Mine Waste

The UNEP/GRID Arendal report Mine Tailings Storage: Safety is No Accident was fortunately very timely....
Barents Sea Leadership on Marine Litter

Barents Sea Leadership on Marine Litter

Marine litter and plastic pollution is a global problem, and the Arctic is not an...
Capacity development to catalyze actions and commitments at the national and global level to reduce plastic pollution including in the marine

Capacity development to catalyze actions and commitments at the national and global level to reduce plastic pollution including in the marine

This project aims to support countries most in need to undertake enabling activities that build...
Caspian Sea: State of the Environment 2011

Caspian Sea: State of the Environment 2011

The first State of the Environment Report of the Caspian Sea (SoE-Report) was prepared by...
Caspian Sea: State of the Environment 2019

Caspian Sea: State of the Environment 2019

The Caspian Sea State of the Environment Report presents a sober diagnosis of the challenges...
Challenges and Emerging Solutions to the Land-Based Plastic Waste Issue in Africa

Challenges and Emerging Solutions to the Land-Based Plastic Waste Issue in Africa

In recent years, there has been a tremendous increase in work that focuses on the...
City-Level Decoupling: Urban Resource Flows and the Governance of Infrastructure Transitions

City-Level Decoupling: Urban Resource Flows and the Governance of Infrastructure Transitions

Building upon previous work of the International Resource Panel on Decoupling Natural Resource Use and...
Climate

Climate

Purpose & RoleThis Impact Area focuses on helping people and ecosystems adapt to climate change...
Climate in Peril: A Popular Guide to the Latest IPCC Reports

Climate in Peril: A Popular Guide to the Latest IPCC Reports

In 2007 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) shared the Nobel Peace Prize with...
Coalland: Faces of Donetsk

Coalland: Faces of Donetsk

In this publication we have tried to collect data, thoughts and impressions from several years...
Controlling Transboundary Trade in Plastic Waste

Controlling Transboundary Trade in Plastic Waste

Studies estimate that at most 9% of all plastic ever produced has been recycled, with...
Curbing River Plastic Pollution and empowering Nepal’s Informal Waste Sector

Curbing River Plastic Pollution and empowering Nepal’s Informal Waste Sector

The brief contains recommendations for Nepali policy- and decision-makers to prevent plastic pollution in Kathmandu,...
E-waste it wisely: lessons from Africa

E-waste it wisely: lessons from Africa

E-waste is the world’s fastest growing and most valuable domestic waste stream. The increasing production...
Environment & Poverty Times No.6

Environment & Poverty Times No.6

The theme of the 6th issue of Environment and Poverty Times is resource efficiency as...
Environmental Crime Waste Traffic

Environmental Crime Waste Traffic

With raising global consumption patterns, the amount of waste is increasing, and scrupulous waste management...
Food Wasted, Food Lost: Food Security by Restoring Ecosystems and Reducing Food Loss

Food Wasted, Food Lost: Food Security by Restoring Ecosystems and Reducing Food Loss

Food security is critical for health, labour productivity, economic growth and sustainable development. Regional and...