These reports and publications are related to the World Environment Day 2024 campaign.
Becoming #GenerationRestoration: Ecosystem Restoration for People, Nature and Climate
Becoming #GenerationRestoration: Ecosystem Restoration for People, Nature and Climate synthesizes evidence of the state of degradation of the world’s ecosystems and details the economic, environmental and social rewards that restoration can bring. The report shows that, far from being a ‘nice to…
The State of the World’s Forests: Forests, Biodiversity and People
As we were putting the finishing touches to The State of the World’s Forests 2020 (SOFO), the world came face to face with the unprecedented challenges of the COV ID-19 pandemic. While the immediate global priority is to tackle this public health emergency, our long-term response must also address…
Freshwater Strategic Priorities 2022-2025
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has released a new strategic document outlining its freshwater-related priorities for implementing UNEP’s Medium-Term Strategy (MTS), 2022-2025. These aim to galvanize urgent understanding, prioritization and action for water worldwide.
Global Assessment of Soil Pollution
Soil pollution is a chemical degradation process that consumes fertile soils, with implications for global food security and human health. Soil pollution hampers the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including achieving zero hunger, ending poverty, ensuring healthy lives and…
Voices from the land: Restoring soil and enriching lives
As vital to our existence as air or water, land is one of our greatest shared assets – and degradation of that land one our most pressing common challenges. Unchecked degradation threatens not only human wellbeing but that of the entire planet, contributing to accelerating climate change and loss…
PUTTING CARBON BACK WHERE IT BELONGS - THE POTENTIAL OF CARBON SEQUESTRATION IN THE SOIL
Soil’s contribution to climate change, through the oxidation of soil carbon, is important. However, soils – and thus agriculture - can play a major role in mitigating climate change. Through multiple agricultural practices, we could help store vast amounts of atmospheric carbon in the soil, while…
The Journey of Food
The Journey of Food is an interactive graphic coordinated by UNEP and World Health Organization (WHO), with the support of the UN Food Systems Task Force. It gives a snapshot of some of the challenges and opportunities for a food system transformation along the entire food system’s value chain,…
Booklet on pollinators and pesticides: Keeping our bees safe
The continuous application of pesticides can deplete insect and microorganism populations, generating pesticide-resistant pests and adversely affecting predator-prey relationships. Neonicotinoids, which are among the world’s most widely used insecticides, can affect the sperm count of male honey…