The 2010 Annual Report catalogues the beginning of a new, strategic and transformational direction for UNEP as it began implementing its Medium Term Strategy (MTS) for 2010-2013 across six areas: Climate change; Disasters and conflicts; Ecosystem management; Environmental governance; Harmful substances and hazardous waste; Resource efficiency, Sustainable consumption and production.

Bioenergy and water are inextricably linked. for the first time, this report examines in depth these interlinkages, highlights the risks and opportunities, and offers an outlook on ways to address them.

This report provides an insight into the diverse activities that have been undertaken by the Marrakech Process during the last eight years, providing highlights and lessons learned from the work of its thematic task forces, and progress at the regional and national levels.

This report provides an overview on the public and private initiatives on water accounting and efficiency worldwide with the aim of raising awareness and enhancing sustainable water
management

Deforestation is responsible for approximately 17% of global greenhouse gas emissions, and is therefore a major contributor to climate change, but also to the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services and a direct threat to Asias great ape the orangutan.

This joint study has two objectives: to analyze the historical climate trends in the region, identify hotspots and determine the potential implications for livelihoods which depend on natural resources; and to provide recommendations for improving conflict and migration sensitivity in adaptation planning, investments and policies across the region.

In this report, the financial sector voices suggestions to international climate change negotiators on how an effective regime for forest-based climate change mitigation should be designed to mobilise private finance engagement and investment.

This publication - the first of a two-part report - is designed to identify and tackle barriers to investment in forest-related projects, such as the UN-backed Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) scheme.

This study argues that environmental property metrics users and suppliers must bridge the gap that separates them to successfully measure the environmental performance of property portfolios and related improvement activities.

The application of ESG issues to the design and implementation of property investment strategies is complex given the ever-changing kaleidoscope of interests and stakeholders involved at different stages of the life of a real estate asset.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) possesses diverse and outstanding natural resources which are important for the Congolese populations’ livelihoods as well as being of strategic regional and global significance.