The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) “Making Peace With Nature” report provides a scientific blueprint for solving our planetary emergency. Amid a wave of investment to re-energize economies hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, and with vital decisions on climate and biodiversity protection due in 2021, the blueprint lays out the roles that everyone – from governments and businesses to communities and individuals – can and must play in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
Published in February 2021, this is the first UNEP synthesis report and is based on evidence from global environmental assessments.
The resulting synthesis communicates how climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution can be tackled jointly within the framework of the Sustainable Development Goals. The report serves to translate the current state of scientific knowledge into crisp, clear and digestible facts-based messages that the world can relate to and follow up on.
It first provides an Earth diagnosis of current and projected human-induced environmental change, by putting facts and interlinkages in perspective, including by using smart infographics. In building on this diagnosis, the report identifies the shifts needed to close gaps between current actions and those needed to achieve sustainable development.
The analysis is anchored in current economic, social and ecological reality and framed by economics and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. By synthesizing the latest scientific findings from the global environmental assessments, the report communicates the current status of the world’s urgent issues and opportunities to solve them.
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Reference: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). (2021, February 18). Making peace with nature. Retrieved July 28, 2023, from https://www.unep.org/resources/making-peace-nature