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Image Circular Economy: from Indicators and Data to Policy-making (2024)
This report aims to map data at national, regional, and global levels, for core Circular Economy Indicators based on the Guidelines for measuring circular economy to assess the availability and accessibility of circular economy indicators. The report evaluates the importance of core indicators in targeted policymaking to advance the shift towards a circular economy and presents country examples of what has been achieved in selected countries. Instances of how circular economy indicators could be used in monitoring targeted policies include resources decoupling, impact decoupling (waste generation and management, greenhouse gas emissions from production activities, pollutants discharges from production activities to water bodies), taxes and government support to circular economy business models, government and business research and development expenditure on circular economy technologies, business investment in circular economy activities and circular economy sector.
EC
Image Measuring Progress: Water-related Ecosystems and the SDGs (2023)
The latest available data and estimates for 92 environment relevant SDG indicators tell us that the world is not on track to achieve the environmental dimension of the SDGs by 2030.
EC
Image Global Manual on Measuring SDG 14.1.1, SDG 14.2.1 and SDG 14.5.1 (2021)
This report aims to provide guidance on how to bring together traditional monitoring techniques with new technologies and data science in order to better monitoring our oceans in the context of the SDGs. The report focuses on the SDG indicators where UNEP is the custodian and responsible for global monitoring, including SDG 14.1.1(a) on coastal eutrophication; SDG 14.1.1(b) on marine debris, SDG 14.2.1 on marine area management and SDG 14.5.1 on protected areas and conservation.
Environment Fund
Image Global Chemicals and Waste Indicator Review Document (2021)
The Global Chemicals and Waste Indicator Review Document aims to strengthen the knowledge base of chemicals and hazardous waste and enhance the capacity of selected countries to track progress towards related SDG indicators across sectors. With the purpose of enhancing evidence base as well as the science policy interface, this review document responds to the need for better information to empower decision makers and stakeholders to act and support policy making for sound management of waste to minimize risks to public health and the environment associated with chemicals and hazardous waste.
Environment Fund,
EC
Image Global Manual on Economy Wide Material Flow Accounting (2021)
MFA data sets and indicators are part of the work programme of a growing number of national statistical offices globally and the global application of EW-MFA accounts in national statistics, beyond Europe, has required the creation of a global guidance manual. This global EW-MFA manual builds on the experience and excellence of the Eurostat accounting guidelines but extends them in several important ways.
EC,
UNDA
Image Measuring Progress: Environment and the SDGs (2021)
Progress toward the achievement of the environmental dimension of the SDGs is the first step in helping governments and other stakeholders assess where related actions and governance arrangements are working.
EC
Image UNEP Food Waste Index Report (2021)
Food waste reduction offers multi-faceted wins for people and planet, improving food security, addressing climate change, saving money and reducing pressures on land, water, biodiversity and waste management systems. Yet this potential has until now been woefully under-exploited. This potential may have been overlooked because the true scale of food waste and its impacts have not been well understood. Global estimates of food waste have relied on extrapolation of data from a small number of countries, often using old data. Few governments have robust data on food waste to make the case to act and prioritize their efforts.
Environment Fund
Image Measuring Fossil Fuel Subsidies in the Context of the Sustainable Development Goals (2019)
The 2030 Agenda calls for a “robust, voluntary, effective, participatory, transparent and integrated follow-up and review framework” to monitor progress against the SDGs (United Nations, 2015). A global SDG indicator framework was adopted by the General Assembly on 6 July 2017 as per the Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on Work of the Statistical Commission pertaining to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (A/RES/71/313). One of the indicators included in the framework is SDG indicator 12.c.1 is “Amount of fossil fuel subsidies per unit of GDP (production and consumption)”. This indicator is under the custodianship of UN Environment
Environment Fund
Image Measuring Progress: Towards Achieving the Environmental Dimension of the SDGS (2019)
Did you know that only 23% of the environment-related SDG indicators are on track to meet the target if current trends continue? For 68%, there is not enough data to assess progress and for 9% there is not progress toward achieving the target.
EC
Image Land restoration for achieving Sustainable Development Goals (2019)
As we approach the final decade before the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) are to be achieved in 2030 a huge step-up is required on all fronts if the world is to achieve its targets and reverse the climate and species crises. Currently, about a quarter of the world’s land is degraded. Land restoration and rehabilitation together represent one of three primary strategies for achieving SDG 15 (Life on Land), and particularly for meeting the land degradation neutrality target under that goal (15.3). This International Resource Panel think piece highlights that both the process of land restoration and rehabilitation, and the restored land, have tremendous potential to help the world limit climate change and achieve its aims for sustainable development.
Environment Fund
Image Gender and Environment Statistics (2019)
Gender equality and women’s empowerment are globally recognised priorities, matters of fundamental human rights, and prerequisites for sustainable development (IUCN, 2018; World Economic Forum, 2015). Understanding the gender environment nexus is not only key to understanding social and environmental inequities and barriers to sustainable development, but to unlocking options for transformative action, as well.
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Image Economy Wide Material Flows Accounts training course
EW-MFA based accounts and indicators deliver a very comprehensive overview of natural resource extraction, trade in natural resources, waste disposal and emissions. They track the environmental pressures resulting from the use of natural resources, and headline indicators based on EW-MFA have been used as a stand-in for the overall environmental pressure and impact of a country's economy.
EC,
UNDA
Image Environmental SDG Indicators Online Course
The Environmental SDG Indicators Online Course is a self-paced course with individual 10 modules developed by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (UNSIAP), and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). This course provides an overview of the importance of monitoring the environmental dimension of development, the linkage with existing statistical frameworks (FDES and SEEA), and how to use environment statistics in decision making. The modules will also provide a brief overview on all 25 SDG indicators under UNEP custodianship.
EC,
UNDA