This report highlights key progress made by the UN system in advancing common approaches, shared policy agendas, and joint operational initiatives on the environment. It outlines actions undertaken to strengthen interagency collaboration, enhance environmental integration across UN programmes, and support delivery of the environmental dimensions of the 2030 Agenda.
The United Nations System-Wide Framework of Strategies on the Environment (SWFS) aims to achieve greater synergy, collaboration, and coherence in the United Nations system’s work on the environment to support Member States in the delivery of the environmental dimension of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. This report was prepared for the information of the sixth session of UNEA providing an update on key collaborative initiatives on the environment under the Environment Management Group since the first SWFS report. It aims to provide a synoptic view of United Nations system efforts in enhancing environmental multilateralism for sustainable development, addressing the triple planetary crisis, and how these efforts can be enhanced in support of Member States.
This report was prepared as a contribution to the Stockholm+50 conference in 2022, providing a UN system-wide perspective on delivering on the vision of the 1972 Stockholm Declaration and achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
The International Good Practice Principles for Sustainable Infrastructure are intended to provide guidance for global use on the integration of sustainability throughout the entire infrastructure life cycle, with the focus “upstream” of the project level. It aims to assist high-level policy- and decision- makers in governments in creating the enabling environment for sustainable infrastructure that is needed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the objectives of the Paris Climate Agreement, while respecting existing international conventions and internationally agreed standards.
The report maps agency specific environmental actions, partnerships, and overall strategic trends of Member Agencies of the United Nations Environment Group, highlighting good practices, leveraging data visualisations, and identifying opportunities for further collaboration.
The System-wide Framework of Strategies is a collaborative framework to achieve greater synergy, collaboration and coherence in the UN system’s work on the environment to support Member States in the delivery of the environmental dimension of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda.
This brochure spotlights a number of the main UN system-wide reports, guidance manuals, information kits and booklets on the environment in which UNEP has played either a leading or contributory role, during the period between 2009 and 2013. The publications are global in scope, demonstrating the UN family’s collaboration as it builds on synergies between different agencies and works closely to “Deliver as One”. These publications have been categorized according to the six environmental themes, namely: climate change, disasters and conflicts, ecosystem management, environmental governance, chemicals and waste, and resource efficiency.