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Wetlands—including peatlands, mangroves, rivers, lakes, salt marshes, and seagrass beds—are vital for biodiversity and form a cornerstone of the EU Water Strategy. They deliver essential provisioning, regulating, and cultural...

To help navigate current and future uncertainty and disruptive change, while effectively delivering on its mandate, UNEP has been implementing an institutionalized approach to strategic foresight and horizon scanning with the view...

The State of Finance for Nature in Cities 2024 report: From Grey to Green: Better data to finance nature in cities, highlights the need for better data and tools to help cities integrate Nature based Solutions (NbS) into their...

There is increasing realization that nature-based solutions (NbS) can address the global crisis of accelerating climate change, biodiversity loss, and land degradation. The NbS agenda plays an essential role in meeting the...

Facing acute pressures from the combination of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution, policymakers around the world have been paying increasing attention to Nature-based Solutions (NbS) as part of their development and...

Human-caused methane emissions are responsible for roughly a third of the planet’s current warming. Reducing these emissions is the fastest, most cost-effective way to slow global warming in the near-term – and is essential to...

As climate impacts intensify and hit the world’s poorest, The Adaptation Gap Report 2024: Come hell and high water finds that nations must dramatically increase climate adaptation efforts, starting with a commitment to act on...

This working paper, titled Critical Transitions: Circularity, Equity, and Responsibility in the Quest for Energy Transition Minerals, was released on 18 November 2024 by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). It...

As climate impacts intensify globally, the Emissions Gap Report 2024: No more hot air … please! finds that nations must deliver dramatically stronger ambition and action in the next round of Nationally Determined Contributions or...

As climate impacts intensify globally, the Emissions Gap Report 2024: No more hot air … please! finds that nations must deliver dramatically stronger ambition and action in the next round of Nationally Determined Contributions or...