Release Date: June, 2011 The fifth edition of the Global Environmental Outlook (GEO-5), launched on the eve of the Rio+20 Summit, assessed 90 of the most-important environmental goals and objectives and found that significant...
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These guidelines provide a framework for strengthening the contribution of European Union (EU) international cooperation and development policy to sustainable development by integrating, or mainstreaming, environmental and climate...
Issues and trends in Education for Sustainable Development is the fifth in UNESCO’s Education on the Move series, which reviews trends in education today and challenges for tomorrow. The present volume addresses Education for...
Publication Date: 2013 The outcome document of Rio+20, The Future We Want, considers the green economy approach as an important tool for achieving sustainable development and poverty eradication, while providing an opportunity for...
Livelihoods, poverty reduction efforts and economic growth in Africa are highly dependent on the quality and availability of natural resources, and are thus extremely vulnerable to degradation of those resources and to climate...
Release Date: 30 January 2012 The High-level Panel on Global Sustainability presented its report to the Secretary-General on 30 January 2012 in Addis Ababa. The 22-member Panel, established by the Secretary-General in August 2010...
The UN Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights were amongst the first international agreements to frame the notion of “universality”. Since then the term has been used in various fora and processes, for example in...
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...
Accessing greater finance and investment will be decisive to achieve higher levels of renewable energy (RE) uptake in developing countries. The scale of capital flows required are very significant indicating that private finance...
This report summarises the findings of the study on Environmental integration into other sector policies and legislation in the Eastern Partnership countries which was conducted between December 2014 and May 2015 in six countries...