Rapid Response Assessments
This special series of reports fills the need for targeted and timely information about environmental challenges.
This special series of reports fills the need for targeted and timely information about environmental challenges.
Marine litter is everywhere and unfortunately, the Arctic Ocean is no exception.
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The project aims to achieve strengthened country capacity for the identification of sources of plastic pollution
Using information from Earth Observation technology to reduce environmental and human insecurity
In order to inform environmental and development policy-making processes, UNEP keeps under review the state of the world environment.
Marine litter is found even in the most remote parts of the Arctic.
GRID-Arendal is supporting release of the Nordic Council report "Possible Elements of a New Global Agreement to Prevent Plastic Pollution".
Marine litter and plastic pollution are global issues that affect the whole world.
Environmentally sound management of household waste is one of the challenges faced by national governments and municipalities.
Supporting the Interim Secretariat with the implementation of the Convention Program of Work and the organization of COP6.
The project highlights both the challenges and the solutions for sound waste management in mountain regions.
This project works with 14 Pacific Islands Countries to finalise extended continental shelf boundaries.
As the population of Kathmandu increases, plastic usage and thereby waste generation is also growing
The project aims to raise awareness, promote leadership and strengthen cooperation to reduce marine pollution in the region.
Developing a strategic roadmap to help guide the transition to circular plastic economies at local, national and global scales.
Enhancing governments’ presence at sea through the provision of low-cost intelligent technological solutions and local capacity building.
Norwegian Infrastructure for Drone-based research, mapping and monitoring in the coastal zone
Developing and disseminating knowledge towards enhancing wastewater management and sanitation service delivery in Africa.
With raising global consumption patterns the amounts of waste increases, and scrupulous waste management is threatened with the illegal...
The MASTREC project focuses on the detection of trafficking of illegal rosewood from Madagascar and illegal charcoal from Somalia/Kenya.
Marine litter and plastic pollution in the ocean is affecting ecosystems, economies and societies around the world.
GRID-Arendal’s Green Economy Programme supports UN Environment to meet policy, modelling, capacity building and reporting goals for its Green Economy work.
This pilot project develops a shoreline map to define coastal areas with different likelihood of accumulating beach litter.
Every couple of years UN Environment takes the global environmental temperature.
The Global Tailings Portal is a public, searchable database with detailed information on more than 1,700 mine tailings dams around the world
The High Ambition Coalition (HAC) to End Plastic Pollution is committed to develop an ambitious international legally binding instrument...
The Marine Debris Action Planner (MDAP) is a project funded by Innovation Norway in which GRID-Arendal and SALT are developing a service...