The Uganda Atlas of Our Changing Environment, prepared by the National Environmental Management Authority of Uganda, provides extensive scientific evidence of Uganda's changing environment. Modelled after Africa: Atlas of our Changing Environment previously published by UNEP, the Uganda Atlas seeks to safeguard the country's environment and inspire decision makers to action.

In the Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS), high population densities, combined with population growth, urbanization and increased development, particularly residential and tourist resort development, has led to the contamination of underlying aquifers and surface water, and deterioration of coastal water quality. The overall objective of this Project is to strengthen the commitment and capacity of the participating countries to implement an integrated approach to the management of watersheds and coastal areas. The long-term goal is to enhance the capacity of the countries to plan and manage their aquatic resources and ecosystems on a sustainable basis. In particular, project activities will be focusing on improvements in integrated freshwater basin-coastal area management on each island of the regional groupings of Caribbean SIDS.

This policy paper has been prepared to highlight the key opportunities and challenges confronting farmers throughout the world as they consider and adopt practices that contribute to green economic development, poverty eradication and improved food security. It focuses on the role of farmers in green economic development and how a transition to a green economy could benefit farmers. It also describes the primary means to accomplish sustainable farming and discusses key policies and public/private investments that would advance a ‘green agriculture’ transition. It is intended to catalyze multi-stakeholder dialogues that place farmers at the center of international efforts to assess costs and benefits and to build a consensus for action at local, national, regional and global scales.

Introducción a los términos relevantes para la discusión sobre almacenamiento y disposición de mercurio

mercury release inventory

Reporting of the mercury waste partnership area

This publication is an expanded version of the Tourism chapter of the Green Economy Report, which mobilizes policy makers to support increased investment in greening tourism sector.

Waste Management Partnership Area Draft Wish List

The gender mainstreaming review takes place at a time when major reforms are being implemented within UNEP through its current Medium Term Strategy (MTS) 2010- 2013. This review has been requested to critically assess UNEP's progress in ensuring gender equality at the organizational level, as well as in mainstreaming gender throughout UNEP activities, promoting equality among women and men in terms of access to and control over environmental resources.

The annex to the present note sets out statements and recommendations by major groups and stakeholders prepared during regional consultations held in preparation for the fourteenth session of the Global Major Groups and Stakeholders Forum and the twenty-seventh session of the Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum. The statements and recommendations are reproduced as received, without formal editing.

The United Nations Environment Programme's flagship magazine.

mercury release inventory

This is a terminal evaluation of a UNEP GEF project implemented between 2005 and 2012. The objective of the project was to implement key aspects of the Regional Environmental Action Plan for Central Asia and to create enabling conditions for its further implementation through capacity building and pilot demonstrations in Sustainable Land Management. The evaluation had two primary purposes: to provide evidence of results to meet accountability requirements; and to promote learning, feedback, and knowledge sharing through results and lessons learned among UNEP, GEF and other partners.

a tool that has been developed to help determine appropriate approaches to control mercury emissions in individual coal fired power plants.

Déclaration d’Arusha sur la stratégie de l’Afrique pour le développement durable après Rio+20

UNEP Global Mercury Partnership Supply and Storage Partnership Area Business Plan

This atlas aims to illustrate a rigorous scientific basis for understanding processes of landscape change in the Sahel and describes landscapes climate vegetation and trends in vegetation and soil health. The atlas provides a pictorial overview of the application of land degradation surveillance science based approach to land health monitoring and assessment Systematic sampling and observation of ground conditions are combined with new technology for rapid soil characterization and with fine to moderate resolution satellite imagery to provide powerful inference about soil vegetation and socioeconomic conditions at local to regional scales.

This publication gives a snapshot of the significant contribution that UNEP with its partners have made around the world in protecting our limited fresh water resources for the improvement of livelihoods, focusing on the ecosystems approaches in line with its mandate case studies range from on-ground intervention to normative work at national, regional and global level.

Key Messages from North American Major Groups and Stakeholders Key points raised by participants in the UNEP North American Civil Society Consultation are enumerated below. These key messages reflect areas of general consensus from the meeting; however, the various groups present do not necessarily endorse every conclusion. Developing a narrative: The current environmental narrative is a reactive and deficit-based approach focusing on tragedy and guilt, instead of a proactive and positive narrative emphasizing the beauty of collaboration and well-being for all on a finite planet. UNEP should facilitate the development a new narrative that captures the urgency of the environmental challenges we face as opportunities for collaboration, inspires stakeholders to take action, creates new communal identities around environmental responsibility, and provides accessible terminology to the general public. UNEP has a central role to play in helping to develop this narrative, and should invite media and communications experts from various industries to support the initiative.

Preamble The Contracting Parties to the Convention for the Protection, Management and Development of the Marine and Coastal Environment of the Western Indian Ocean Region (Nairobi Convention), Noting with appreciation the Report of the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme on the work of the Secretariat and efforts made by the Contracting Parties to implement the Work Programme for 2011 to 2012 as well as the preparation of the proposed work programme for 2013 to 2017; Noting also the progress made in the preparation of the new action strategy for the Western Indian Ocean Region; Noting the progress made by the Contracting Parties and partners in the development of a protocol on integrated coastal zone management including the Guidelines for drafters and negotiators;