Publications

One Health

A new report highlights the contribution of forests and trees to the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its goals, particularly SDG 3 on ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all at all ages.

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Food security

Over a quarter of a billion people were facing acute food insecurity in 2022. This number has increased for the fourth year in a row, according to a new report.

 

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Women

Governments are increasingly adopting policies aimed at influencing fertility rates. But besides the fact that these efforts are very often ineffective, they can erode women’s rights, the flagship report of the United…

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Women

Tackling gender inequalities in agrifood systems and empowering women reduces hunger, boosts the economy, and builds resilience to shocks like climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report.

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Food systems

This report provides a broad set of evidence-based recommendations for better predicting and preparing for crises, addressing crises when they occur, and building equity and the resilience of food systems.

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Energy

For the first time, the Global Status Report (GSR) is being released as a collection of modules, with the first ones, focusing on Renewable Energy Demand, having appeared in March.

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Water

A new UNEP report on freshwater ecosystems calls for an all-sector approach, which would also allow a more holistic realisation of the 2030 Agenda. Integrated policies such as integrated water resources management should…

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Water

This paper describes the adverse impacts of microplastics and micropollutants on human and animal life, as well as recent policy developments to address these problems.

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Water

The latest UN report on water sheds light on the importance of partnerships and cooperation for water, and makes recommendations for policy-makers on how to speed and scale up efforts to achieve SDG 6.

 

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Climate change

The latest IPCC Synthesis Report paints a clear way ahead, underscoring that the solution to tackling global warming lies in climate-resilient development and holistic measures to adapt to climate change which also…

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