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The Working Group II contribution to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report assesses the impacts of climate change, looking at ecosystems, biodiversity, and human communities at global and regional levels. The report finds that, to avoid mounting loss of life, biodiversity and infrastructure, ambitious, accelerated action is required to adapt to climate change, at the same time as making rapid, deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.

This report gives an overview on aligning bank lending with climate-safe scenarios, with the goal of that by 2025 bank lending will be consistent with staying below a 1.5°C global temperature increase.

This policy brief summarizes lessons from COP26 and climate action needed for a just transition to a net-zero and resilient economy.

This UNEP report addresses the role that labelling initiatives can play in managing chemicals of concern and proposes recommendations to scale up these initiatives’ effectiveness to track and control the use of CoCs along the electronics value chain.

The introduction of bylaws by the Mahalaxmi Municipality in Nepal aims to help address the problem of availability of land for waste and sanitation management business. This paper highlights some proposals that were discussed in consultation with the local and federal government and other stakeholders active in waste management.

The main objective of the proposed bylaw in Mahalaxmi is to ease the availability of land for private entrepreneurs willing to establish a waste and sanitation management business, which can include those related to fecal sludge management. The bylaw will guarantee several socio-economic benefits including employment opportunities and subsidized sales of by-products. For Mahalaxmi, the two potential by-products were determined to be biogas and fertilizers.