The UN Division for Sustainable Development (DSD), a division of the UN Department of Economics and Social Affairs (UNDESA) has produced a study on the review of the implementation of two of the major...
The first report from the UN system on the Post-2015 Development Agenda – Realizing the Future We Want for All – recommends that new goals should build on the strengths of the Millennium Development...
The World Water Development Report was launched at the World Water Forum in France. Stakeholder Forum played a significant role in drafting chapter one of the report.
The latest edition of the United Nations Environment Programme’s magazine “Our Planet” is a special feature edition celebrating 40 years of UNEP and looking forward to Rio+20. The magazine includes articles from Elizabeth Thompson,...
The United Nations Environment Programme has published its latest edition of the compreshensive Global Environment Outlook report, the last report (GEO-4) having been published in 2007. This Summary for Policy Makers highlights the findings...
Peoples’ Sustainability Treaties are proposed as a series of independent collective agreements produced by representatives of major groups and stakeholders of civil society, with the intention of being drafted and published prior to the...
In the past four years, multiple crises – financial, economic, food, energy – have caused governments and other bodies to look more critically at systemic and structural issues related to national and global economies....
The United Nations Environment Programme today released a new compilation of statistical data tracking environmental changes that have swept the planet over the last twenty years in a report called “Keeping Track of our...
The Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) Initiative is a partnership between the United Nations and global investors with the goal of promoting and mainstreaming responsible investment practice. Launched in 2006 by UNEP Finance Initiative...
The European Union consultation of stakeholders for a planned European Commission Communication for Rio+20 has now been released. The objective of the consultation was to produce a Communication setting out the EU’s views on...
