Human Development Report 2007/2008
This year's Human Development Report explains why we have less than a decade to change course and start living within our global carbon budget, and how climate change will create long-run low human development traps, pushing vulnerable people into...
2022 Special Report on Human Security
The report finds a development conundrum. Despite people on average living longer, healthier, and wealthier lives, these advances have not succeeded in increasing people's sense of security. This is true for countries right across the development ...
Human Development Report 2006
Human Development Report 2006
Global gender and environment outlook 2016
The Global Gender and Environment Outlook (GGEO): The Critical Issues provides an overview of critical evaluations and analyses of the interlinkages between gender and the environment, and their importance for gender-sensitive policymaking and act...
state of African cities 2014
The African continent is currently in the midst of simultaneously unfolding and highly significant demographic, economic, technological, environmental, urban and socio-political transitions. Africa's economic performance is promising, with booming...
The Law of the Sea: Part XI The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 with Index and Excerpts from the Final Act of the 3rd United Nations Conference on the Law of the
This publication lists all current developments on national legislation, declarations and treaties on maritime jurisdiction that have been adopted since the enactment of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. The information is ...
United Nations Environment Programme
This is the official report of the United Nations Environment Assembly of the United Nations Environment Programme submitted to the General Assembly on its fourth session in Nairobi (11-15 March 2019).
Hunger and Health
Hunger and Health explores the multiple relationships between hunger and poor health, and how they affect the growth of individuals, physiologically and psychologically, constraining the development of nations both socially and economically. Exami...
Our common agenda
On the seventy-fifth anniversary of the United Nations, the world has faced its biggest shared test since the Second World War in the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Yet while our welfare, and indeed the permanence of human life, depend o...
Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods
The Manual of Tests and Criteria contains criteria, test methods and procedures to be used for classification of dangerous goods according to the provisions of Parts 2 and 3 of the United Nations Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods...
Manual of tests and criteria
The Manual of Tests and Criteria contains criteria, test methods and procedures to be used for the classification of dangerous goods according to the provisions of the 'United Nations Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods, Model Regu...
Progress on transboundary water cooperation under the water convention
The publication presents and analyses the findings of the first pilot reporting exercise under the Water Convention, which was carried out in 2017. Progress made in the implementation of the Convention is reviewed and summarised, together with the...
Natural Hazards, UnNatural Disasters
Earthquakes, droughts, floods, and storms are natural hazards, but unnatural disasters are the deaths and damages that result from human acts of omission and commission. Every disaster is unique, but each exposes actions-by individuals and governm...
Pathways for Peace
Since 2010, the number and intensity of violent conflicts have increased rapidly. The human and economic costs associated with violent conflict are massive, affecting long-term stability and prospects for economic development and poverty reduction...
Reimagining Our Futures Together
The interwoven futures of humanity and our planet are under threat. Urgent action, taken together, is needed to change course and reimagine our futures. Education, long acknowledged as a powerful force for positive change, has new, urgent and impo...
World drug report 2016
The World Drug Report provides a comprehensive overview of recent developments in the world's illicit drug markets. Chapter one of the World Drug Report 2016 provides a global overview of the latest statistics, trends and developments with respect...
FACING THE SLUM CHALLENGE
Presents the first global assessment of slums, emphasizing their problems and prospects. This book presents estimates of the number of urban slum dwellers and examines the factors at all level, from local to global, that underlie the formation of ...
Millennium Development Goals Gap Task Force Report 2014
The MDG Gap Task Force Report systematically tracks existing international commitments and their fulfilment at the international level in the areas of official development assistance, trade, debt relief, and access to essential medicines and techn...
Sustainable Transport, Sustainable Development
New and emerging technologies, from electric cars and buses to zero-carbon producing energy sources, as well as policy innovations, are critical for combating climate change, but to be effective, they must ensure that transport strategies benefit ...
Gumballs
Gumballs
People Forced to Flee
People in danger have received protection in communities beyond their own from the earliest times of recorded history. The causes - war, conflict, violence, persecution, natural disasters, and climate change - are as familiar to readers of the new...
