Environment and Climate Change

The publication explores the key areas around which regional platforms can rally interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral solutions for the ocean. It highlights the lack of data and statistics on the ocean, the growing demand for moving towards inclusive and green maritime shipping, deteriorating fish stocks and gaps in fisheries management and the mounting pressure of marine plastic pollution.

This publication is the third in a series of pocketbook compilations on energy statistics designed to highlight the availability of data on various aspects of energy production, transformation and use and its linkages to other key statistics. Energy is central to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement on climate change, and sound energy statistics are the basis for the reliable measurement of progress, thereby assisting the formulation of policy measures to achieve international and national sustainable development goals.

The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) carries out Environmental Performance Reviews (EPR) in its member States that are not members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in order to improve their environmental management by recommending ways to achieve better policy implementation. This first EPR of Turkmenistan covers 13 issues related to policymaking, planning and implementation, the financing of environmental policies and projects and the integration of environmental concerns into economic sectors, in particular the sustainable management and protection of water resources, waste management, air pollution, forestry, biodiversity and protected areas, energy and climate change.

For thousands of years, nature has gracefully provided the necessary inputs to feed us, and we have in many occasions taken these precious gifts for granted. This report, “Food Systems and Natural Resources” is an effort to account for these inputs, looking at how we are using and managing them, the consequences of that management and the options to improve the efficiency with which they are managed.

La présente publication contient les résultats de l’EPE realisé par la CEE au Maroc. Cet EPE couvre également 13 questions d’importance pour le pays liées à l’élaboration des politiques, la planification et la mise en œuvre, le financement des politiques et projets environnementaux, et l’intégration des préoccupations environnementales dans les secteurs économiques, notamment l’agriculture, l’énergie, la santé, l’industrie, la biodiversité et les zones protégées, l’eau et la gestion des déchets. L’examen du Maroc est remarquable car il s’agit du premier pays en dehors de la région CEE à demander un EPE à la CEE, et le processus a été entrepris en coopération avec la CEA.

This publication provides general and statistical information on forest products markets and related policies in Europe, North America and the Commonwealth of Independent States. The Review begins with an overview chapter, followed by analysis of government and industry policies and market-based implements affecting forest products markets. The third chapter is on innovation in the forest sector. Five chapters are based on annual country-supplied statistics, describing: wood raw materials, sawn softwood, sawn hardwood, wood-based panels, and paper, paperboard and woodpulp. Additional chapters discuss markets for wood energy, value-added wood products, and housing. In each chapter, production, trade and consumption are analysed and relevant material on specific markets is included. Tables and graphs provided throughout the text present summary information.

This publication contains the Revised Guidelines which have been developed as a tool for the consistent practical implementation of transboundary environmental impact assessment procedures and to assist Central Asian countries in developing their national legislation in accordance with the Convention. The Revised Guidelines are structured along each of the procedural stages of a transboundary environmental impact assessment procedure that reflects the requirements of the Espoo Convention and are complemented by related good practice recommendations for the application of the Convention in the Central Asian subregional context.

Coal mines are not only a safety management challenge but also a major source of greenhouse gas emissions. Methane release during coal mining creates unsafe working conditions in underground coal mines around the world. This Guidance is intended to provide a genuine contribution to improve mine safety practices at active underground coal mines, by supporting safer mining practices to reduce fatalities, injuries, and property losses, while encouraging the use of coal mine methane (CMM) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and utilize otherwise—wasted energy resources.

This issue of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime journal Forum on Crime and Society focuses on wildlife crime. It contains articles by a range of researchers and academics with experience in the subject. Forum on Crime and Society is issued by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), based in Vienna. It presents policy-oriented articles on issues related to crime prevention and criminal justice, focusing on trends and practices in the field of criminal justice that are of special significance to the international community.