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ASEAN Community Vision 2025
Document that charts the ASEAN Community Vision 2025.
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ASEAN Cooperation on Chemicals and Waste
Over the past few decades, there has been a growing concern that chemicals, while essential in modern life and the economy, can cause significant adverse impacts on human health...
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What is food loss and food waste?
Post-harvest losses account for a majority of the food loss sustained in developing countries across Asia and the Pacific region. Between 15 and 50 percent of fruits and vegetab...
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Roadmap for the 10YFP implementation in Asia and the Pacific 2014-2015
One of the foreseen outputs of the “First Asia-Pacific Regional Meeting on the 10YFP” (7-8 November 2013, Bangkok, Thailand) was the development of a Roadmap for the 10YFP imple...
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Circular Economy Overview
Looking beyond the current take-make-dispose extractive industrial model, a circular economy aims to redefine growth, focusing on positive society-wide benefits. It entails grad...
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Circular Economy
UNCTAD’s work on the circular economy started in 2015 with a collaboration with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation on resource-circularity potentials in large economies like India a...
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The human right to water and sanitation
Recognizes the right to safe and clean drinking water and sanitation as a human right that is essential for the full enjoyment of life and all human rights.
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SDG Index & Dashboard Report (country profiles)
The purpose of the SDG Index and Dashboards is to assist countries to identify priorities for action, in order to achieve the 17 SDGs. The indicators and dashboards should help ...
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The State of Social Protection in ASEAN at the Dawn of Integration
The study provides an overview of the social protection situation in each of the ten ASEAN Member States, using the framework of the four Guarantees adopted in 2012 under the IL...
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Social Security (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1952
Convention No.102 was adopted by the International Labour conference of the ILO on 28 June 1952 and sets a framework of common important basic social security principles on whic...
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Sustainable Development Goal 6
Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
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Final list of proposed Sustainable Development Goal indicators
This global indicator framework was developed by the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on SDG Indicators (IAEG-SDGs) and agreed to, as a practical starting point at the 47th sessio...
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Payment for Ecological Services: A Win-win Option for Poverty Reduction?
Powerpoint presentation considering how pros and cons of Payments for Ecosystem Services mechanisms
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Global Forest Financing Facilitation Network (GFFFN)
The UN Forum on Forests (UNFF) carries out its forest financing activities through the Global Forest Financing Facilitation Network (GFFFN). In 2015, the Economic and Social Cou...
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Keeping the promise: united to achieve the Millennium Development Goals
Resolution on the way forward to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.
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Ecosystem Profile: Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot
This document represents the ecosystem profile for the Indo-Burma Hotspot, whichcomprises all non-marine parts of Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, plus parts of...
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The economic value of ecosystem services in the Mekong Basin: What we know, and what we need to know
In green economies, natural capital is incorporated into measurement of societal progress and equity, and recognized and managed as a fundamental pillar of economic and human we...
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Promotion of new and renewable sources of energy
Resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations declaring 2014–2024 the United Nations Decade of Sustainable Energy for All, to be promoted through all sources of energy
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International Year of Sustainable Energy for All
General Assembly Resolution declaring 2012 the International Year of Sustainable Energy for All
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Declaration on Institutionalising the Resilience of Asean and its Communities and Peoples to Disasters and Climate Change
Declaration to institutionalize climate change adaptation, and disaster risk reduction and management in ASEAN