This stocktaking report attempts to provide an overview of big data, its use in the policymaking context, the stakeholders and their roles and provides some suggested actionable steps as a discussion stimulus for the "Big ...

In 2015, governments agreed to a new set of universally applicable development goals — the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development — that expands the scope of internationally agreed development priorities to incorporate ...

This study provides an overview of material resource use and efficiency trends in Asia and the Pacific over 1990 to 2015. The main contribution of this study is a new analytical approach to assess a country's resource ...

Integration of economic, social and environmental dimensions is key to achieving sustainable development. There is, in general, a widespread acceptance of why the integration of the three dimensions is necessary; however, ...

The Low Carbon Green Growth Roadmap for Asia and the Pacific explores the opportunities that a low carbon green growth path offers to the region. It articulates five tracks on which to drive the economic system change ...

<p>This document presents an outline feasibility study on the Pacific's legal and institutional context and capacities concerning the potential development of a sub-regional instrument on access rights. The first part of ...

<p>This technical report examines the practical ways to strengthen environmental impact assessment (EIA) procedures in ASEAN to address critical environmental and human rights issues. Climate change, biodiversity loss, and ...

<p>This publication aims to inform the public about the green growth concept which was originally presented in 2005 in Seoul at the 5th Ministerial Conference on Environment and Development (MCED) in the Asia and the Pacific ...

Some of the essential transformations needed to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are elaborated in the Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR) 2019i and the political declaration of the high-level political ...

<p>Much of the debate on green growth and environmental governance tends to be general in nature, and is often conceptual or limited to single disciplines. Even though recent discussions on these topics have benefited from ...