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Governance of Oceans Through Regional Seas

The excessive release of nitrogen compounds into the environment is one of the biggest problems of our time. Nitrogen compounds, such as nitrogen oxides and ammonia, pollute the environment and endanger human health in numerous and complex ways.

In 2014 the Research Bureau of the People’s Bank of China convened a Green Finance Task Force made up of 40 experts from ministries, financial regulators, academics, banks and other financial institutions, complemented by international experts brought together by the UNEP Inquiry to consider the steps that China could take to establish a green financial system.This detailed report on one of the fourteen recommendations complements the main report."

Intercity Passenger Transport (Case: HSR)Freight Transport (Case: Dedicated Corridors)Alternate Freight Infrastructure Choices (Case: Coal?by?Wire Option)Adapting to Changing Climate (Case: Konkan Railways)

Este documento visa apresentar aos decisores políticos das cidades um conjunto de oito mensagens-chave que a ONU Meio Ambiente reconhece como fundamentais para tornar as cidades mais eficientes no uso de recursos. O documento também traz exemplos concretos de políticas locais bem-sucedidas. Cada mensagem apresenta um estudo de caso de uma cidade para destacar os benefícios das medidas tomadas para aumentar a eficiência dos recursos.

Agenda for the First Meeting of the African Ocean Governance Strategy

Following the endorsement of the UNEP Indigenous Peoples’ Policy Guidance in 2012, UNEP has continuously improved its engagement with Indigenous Peoples’ representatives and experts and has ensured Indigenous Peoples’ participation, including from previous or current UNPFII Forum members in relevant workshops, meetings and conferences throughout the year 2014. Indigenous experts have substantially contributed to more integrated perspectives on topics such as the development of indicators on land rights and land tenure in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Post‐2015 Development Agenda, changes in the Arctic (UNEP Live), environmental management and monitoring (UNEP Year Book 2014 , Chapter 6, Citizen Science) as well as the first Global Intergovernmental Multi‐stakeholder Consultation on ‐the Sixth Global Environmental Outlook (GEO 6), October 2014, which agreed that the GEO‐6 analysis should draw on diverse knowledge systems, including the use of accepted guidelines for using peer reviewed scientific literature, grey literature, data, and indigenous and local knowledge.

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This desktop review was undertaken with the aim of identifying key stakeholders and partners at continental, sub-regional, basin, national and local levels, with a particular focus on a wide range of actors such as intergovernmental institutions, regional economic commissions, government agencies, development partners, non-states actors, and research institutions working in the pursuit for adaptation solutions in the Nile Basin.

Adequate, appropriate finance is crucial for sustainable development in the Asia-Pacific region. The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific UN (ESCAP) estimates that the region needs to invest around US$2.5 trillion a year between 2013 and 2030 to achieve key sustainable development goals. The region’s developing financial and capital markets provide a unique opportunity for innovative financial and capital market policies, regulations and standards that can align private capital flows to the financing needs of sustainable development. Notably, the region’s savings, US$8.4 trillion in 2012, represents more than half of the world’s total savings, the channeling of which will make a significant difference to regional and international progress towards sustainable development.

Achieving sustainable development requires investment in an inclusive, green economy. Today, mismatches between what is financed and what needs financing contributes to continued environ¬mental deterioration of natural capital and insufficient investment in infrastruc¬ture and people to secure inclusive prosperity. Financial decision-making responds to price and policy signals in the real econo¬my, but is also impacted by how the financial system is organized, informed par¬ticularly by the actions of the financial system’s governing institutions, including government ministries, central banks and regulators, and rating agencies, stan¬dard setters and stock exchanges. The UNEP Inquiry has explored how changes in financial system design can bring the environment more effectively into financial decision-making. Its insights have been informed by an international Advisory Council and insights from practical country experience and extensive international engagement and research reflected in over fifty research papers. The Inquiry’s insights suggest an historic opportunity in shaping a financial sys¬tem that can more effectively finance the development of an inclusive, green economy. Such an opportunity can be achieved through leadership commit¬ted to developing the financial system to ensure it meets its broader purpose through complementary and coordinated action by financing institutions, those governing the system, and policymakers. The Inquiry’s Three Key Messages Are That: Financing for sustainable development can be delivered through action within the financial system, as well as in the real economy. Policy innovations from developing and developed countries demonstrate how the financial system can be better aligned with sustainable development. Systematic national action can now be taken to shape a sustainable financial system, complemented by international cooperation.

Fortalecer las capacidades científicas y recopilación de datos para el monitoreo

UNEP Regional cooperation

This report provides the accessible scientific basis and validation for the statements and recommendations made in the Summary for Policy-makers: Arctic Pollution Issues 2015 reporti that was delivered to Arctic Council Ministers at their meeting in Iqaluit, Canada in April 2015. It is also the basis for a related AMAP State of the Arctic Environment report Arctic Pollution Issues 2015: Overviewii. It includes extensive background data and references to the scientific literature, and details the sources for graphics reproduced in the overview report. Whereas the Summary for Policy-makers report contains recommendations that focus mainly on policy-relevant actions concerned with addressing contaminant impacts on Arctic human populations, the conclusions and recommendations presented in this report also cover issues of a more scientific nature, such as proposals for filling gaps in knowledge, and recommendations relevant to future monitoring and research work.

Much of the most creative reform to green the financial system is taking place in countries as diverse as Brazil, China, Indonesia, and South Africa. Leadership from the less developed countries is, for understandable reasons, rarer so the case of Bangladesh stands out. Taking full advantage of its broad mandate, the Bangladesh Bank has launched a series of pioneering initiatives to stimulate the rapid growth of green and inclusive finance, hoping thus to accelerate the transformation of the wider finance and capital markets in the same direction. The below panel, moderated by Mark Halle, Vice-President, Strategy and Executive Director of IISD-Europe, will discuss a series of questions, drawing on the case of Bangladesh and comparing it with experience from other developing countries.

Presentation at the UNEP- European Commission Workshop on Regional Ocean Governance

Addressing the role of natural resources in conflict and peacebuilding: a summary of progress from UNEP's Environmental Cooperation for Peacebuilding Programme This report provides a comprehensive overview of the different outputs for each pillar and the results achieved. It also summarizes key lessons, with a future outlook for UNEP in the coming years under the ECP framework. ECP delivery partners and partnerships are also duly recognized. It also informs UNEP’s approach for address- ing con ict risks and peacebuilding opportunities from natural resources and the environment in the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, in- cluding the newly established Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Developing the international dimension of the Integrated Maritime Policy

Nordic and Scandinavian cooperation Together with Scandinavian sister authorities, Cochrane Sweden and HTA Region Stockholm, SBU has started a network called the Scandinavian GRADE network in order to advance the use of GRADE for evidence-informed decision making for policy and practice in the Scandinavian countries, i.e. Sweden, Denmark and Norway. SBU is part of the steering group. Read more about the network here There is also a cooperation between the nordic HTA-organisations in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland where SBU participats. The aim of this network is to inform each other of ongoing projects to avoid dupplication of work, and to plan for the adaptation to the new EU regulation that applies as of January 2025. European networks and collaborations SBU is a member of the European network by authorities and organizations that responsible for medical evaluation Heads of Agencies Group (HAG). SBU also participates in the preparatory work organized through EUnetHTA 21 where SBU is active through the participating in two working groups focused on development, skill enhancement, implementation, financing, communication, and education efforts regarding the new EU regulation about HTA in Europe. Health Technology Assessment international (HTAi) is the global scientific and professional society for all those who produce, use, or encounter HTA. HTAi has members from over 65 countries and embraces all stakeholders, including researchers, agencies, policy makers, industry, academia, health service providers, and patients/consumers. We are the neutral forum for collaboration and the sharing of leading information and expertise. HTAi:s members regularly participate in meetings, Policy Fora and Interest Sub-groups. HTAi also provides access to a variety of resources including the International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care (IJTAHC). The society is governed by an elected Board of Directors that is supported by an Executive Committee, several Advisory Committees, and a Secretariat. INAHTA is a network of 55 HTA agencies that support health system decision making that affects over 1 billion people in 33 countries around the globe. With more than 2,100 staff and consultants working in the INAHTA network, there are clear benefits to connecting these agencies together to cooperate and share information about their work producing and disseminating HTA reports for evidence based decision making. INAHTA serves this purpose. http://www.inahta.org/ International Network on Social Intervention, INSIA is an international network for agencies working in the field of social interventions. INSIA’s position statement sets out the vision, aims and benefits of the network. The secretariat is currently lead by SBU and SBU is also active in working groups and has a member in the board. Watch video about the network WHO. The government has appointed SBU as Sweden's representative in the HTA network within the World Health organisation (WHO) and EU. SBU runs several international projects, both at the global level and within EU. http://www.who.int/en/