Our projects
- Improving Ecosystem Management for Sustainable Livelihoods within the Framework of Lancang-Mekong Cooperation project is funded by the China-UNEP Trust Fund and aims to enhance the adoption of an integrated ecosystem management approach in the Lancang-Mekong region by facilitating cooperation among countries, and across sectors, with ecosystem management for sustainable livelihood demonstrated through pilot activities at selected areas in Cambodia and China.
- UNEP is implementing a Japan-funded “Project for promoting the Minamata Convention on Mercury by making the most of Japan's knowledge and experiences” to support its member States in the implementation of the Convention. The project makes a special focus on the area of information exchange, awareness and education, and research, development and monitoring. A comprehensive programme is designed to strengthen enabling capacity, build on the resources in and around Minamata, and employ technologies held by institutions in Japan.
- Funded by the United Nations Development Account and implemented by UNEP, the project Strengthening ASEAN Member State Policies with Environmental Health Data on Costs of Inaction and Co-Benefits, aims to develop capacities and facilitate South-South cooperation around the use of data and tools to assess co-benefits and costs of inaction on environmental health issues, with a strong focus on air pollution. Through doing so it will support integrated and science-based policy interventions in Cambodia, Indonesia, and Thailand, and across the ASEAN region.
- The CounterMEASURE project works to identify sources and pathways of plastic pollution in river systems in Asia, particularly the Mekong and the Ganges. The project has developed plastic leakage models for localities in 6 different countries using an innovative and replicable approach. Deploying technologies like GIS, machine learning and drones has allowed the CounterMEASURE team to augment ground-level research in an efficient and scalable way. This scientific knowledge can then be used to inform policy decisions and actions to beat plastic pollution and ensure rivers are free of plastic waste.
- The Poverty-Environment Action aims on deepening and broadening poverty-environment mainstreaming and aligning finance and investment with poverty, environment and climate objectives, in the face of the changing forms and conditions of poverty found in the world today. Its overall intended outcome is "Strengthened integration of poverty-environment objectives into policies, plans, regulations and investments of partner countries to accelerate delivery of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals."
- Funded by the United Nations Development Account and implemented by the UNEP Asia and the Pacific Regional Office , the project aims to develop capacities and facilitate South-South cooperation around the use of data and tools to assess co-benefits and costs of inaction on environmental health issues, with a strong focus on air pollution. Through doing so it will support integrated and science-based policy interventions in Cambodia, Indonesia, and Thailand, and across the ASEAN region.
- SEA circular is an initiative by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Coordinating Body on the Seas of East Asia (COBSEA), which is funded by the Government of Sweden, to inspire market-based solutions and encourage enabling policies to solve marine plastic pollution at the source.
- UNEP and UN Women jointly initiated the EmPower project, with the support of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency to give a platform for women and marginalized groups to use their voices, agency and leadership and collaborate with men to build climate resilience and secure sustainable development.
- The Asia Pacific Adaptation Network (APAN) is a regional programme for managing and applying adaptation knowledge in the region and supports governments and other organisations working on climate change adaptation. APAN aims to equip key actors in the region with adequate knowledge for designing and implementing climate change adaptation measures, building capacity to access technologies and finance in support of climate change adaptation, and integrating climate change adaptation into policies, strategies, and plans.
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CityAdapt promotes climate resilience in urban areas through the implementation of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) for adaptation. It also strengthens the technical capacities of municipalities and citizens to analyze the impacts and vulnerabilities to climate change and identify appropriate nature-based solutions.The project takes place in three cities in three Latin America and the Caribbean countries and five cities in four Asian countries.
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The joint UNDP-UNEP National Adaptation Plan Global Support Programme (NAP-GSP), funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), has assisted over 60 least developed and developing countries in identifying technical, institutional and financial needs to integrate climate change adaptation into medium and long-term national planning and financing. The programme has operationally closed in December 2021, but will continue to build on extension work and success of the NAP-GSP through the recently GEF approved project on “Strengthening Endogenous Capacities of Least Developed Countries to Access Finance for Climate Change Adaptation” that will be implemented by the UNEP and executed by START International.
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The Cool Coalition is a global multi-stakeholder network that connects a wide range of key actors from government, cities, international organizations, businesses, finance, academia, and civil society groups to facilitate knowledge exchange, advocacy and joint action towards a rapid global transition to efficient and climate-friendly cooling. The Cool Coalition is now working with over 100 partners, including 23 countries and promotes an ‘reduce-shift-improve-protect holistic and cross-sectoral approach to meet the cooling needs of both industrialized and developing countries through urban form, better building design, energy efficiency, renewables, and thermal storage as well as phasing down HFCs.
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Green Fins is a proven conservation management approach – implemented internationally by The Reef-World Foundation and the UN Environment Programme – which leads to a measurable reduction in the negative environmental impacts associated with marine tourism. It aims to protect coral reefs through environmentally friendly guidelines promoting sustainable diving and snorkelling. It provides the only internationally recognised environmental standards for marine tourism and its robust assessment system measures compliance.