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Rush hour in Nairobi, Kenya, and the streets are packed with columns of vehicles pumping out fumes, waiting their turn to inch through the downtown gridlock. Bursts of black smoke come from the tailpipes of idling…
The Inclusive Wealth Report (IWR) is a biennial effort led by the UN Environment to evaluate the capacities and performance of the nations around the world to measure sustainability of economy and wellbeing of their people. The existing statistical…
The flow would critically depend upon the health and resilience of capital assets like manufactured capital, human capital and natural capital. A country’s inclusive wealth is the social value (not dollar price) of all its capital assets, including…
Dickson Ochieng knows firsthand what it’s like to live without proper sanitation. Growing up in Kibera, the largest informal settlement in Africa, his house had no toilet or running water, and being surrounded by…
13 November 2018 — UN Environment’s Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) announced today a partnership with 16 of the world’s largest insurers—representing around 10% of world premium and USD 5 trillion in assets under…
For Matilda Payne, founder of My Extreme Deco, waste is the new gold. Her small Ghana-based enterprise has found a way to valorize waste in an unexpected and creative way: by transforming it into jewelry, furniture…
Asia and the Pacific is the fastest growing economic region in the world. It is also a place of contrasts, home to some of the smallest and poorest countries and some of the largest and richest. In spite of the challenges the region faces, countries…
Shanghai, 19 October 2018 – Financial Centres for Sustainability (FC4S) today launched its Asia-Pacific Centre, one of several important steps taken to scale up the financing required for climate action and…
Desertification and land degradation are not new to the fragile Sahel ecosystem, a semi-arid strip of land south of the Sahara Desert. Climate change, which is expected to deeply modify the region’s climate,…
UN Environment’s TEEBAgriFood initiative has been recognized with a 2018 Future Policy Award. The initiative helps decision-makers to compare policies and markets to value food more accurately. World Food Day is…
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