COVID-19 Resources
Articles
- Regions4 at the ENVE debate on the local green recovery
- COVID-19: Four Sustainable Development Goals that help future-proof global recovery – UNEP
- Building Back Better: Why we must think of the next generation – UNEP
- COVID-19 Stimulus Measures Must Save Lives, Protect Livelihoods, and Safeguard Nature to Reduce the Risk of Future Pandemics – IPBES
- Resilient Amazon: From emergency to sustainable development on the wake of COVID-19 – GCF Taskforce
- Guide for Conservation Units in the Amazon – GCF Taskforce
- Can biodiversity loss lead to more infectious disease spread? – Mongabay India
- COVID-19 does not mean climate action is on hold – UNEP
- Will pandemic push humans into a healthier relationship with nature? – Thomson Reuters Foundation
- NASA training on air pollution data
Papers & Reports
- Regions4 Declaration “Subnational governments actions to combat global emergencies and build a sustainable post-pandemic world”
- IPBES Workshop Report on Biodiversity and Pandemics
- United Nations Report “Social Responsibility, Global Solidarity: Responding to the socio-economic impacts of COVID-19″
- UN Framework for the immediate socio-economic response to COVID-19
- Working with the environment to protect people: UNEP’s Covid-19 response
- Building Resilient Societies After the COVID-19 Pandemic – UNEP and the International Resource Panel
- COVID-19 Emergency Response: Local Government Finance, Guidance Note for Immediate Action – United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)
Policy Briefs
- UN Secretary-General Policy Brief “COVID-19 in an urbanizing world”
- UN DESA Policy Briefs
- COVID-19 and the risk to food supply chains. How to respond? – FAO
- From Containment to Recovery: Environmental Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic – OECD
- Territorial Impact of COVID-19: Managing the crisis across levels of government – OECD
- From Pandemic to Recovery: Local employment and economic development – OECD
Regions4Action
- Navarre’s Recovery Plan with the 2030 Agenda at the Heart
- Regions4 Declaration “Subnational governments actions to combat global emergencies and build a sustainable post-pandemic world”
- Measures adopted by the Catalan Government to face the COVID-19 pandemic
- Lombardy’s commitment to a sustainable way out of COVID-19
- The Advisory Council for Sustainable Development of Catalonia calls to overcome the effects of COVID-19 through sustainability policies
- Regions4 commends subnational efforts to combat COVID-19
Webinars & Events
- 2030 Agenda: from global emergencies to solutions at the regional level
- Harnessing Climate & SDGs Synergies to Recover Better and Stronger from the COVID-19 Pandemic Webinar Series – UN DESA and UNFCCC
- COVID-19 & climate change: economic solutions – Frontiers.org
- Sustainability after COVID-19 Can the global Green New Deal movement survive the pandemic? – Green Growth Knowledge Platform
- Strengthening Science and Technology and Addressing Inequalities in the COVID-19 Era – UN DESA
- Economic and Social Impacts of COVID-19 – UN DESA
- Accelerating Ambitious Climate Action in the post-pandemic world – LGMA to COP26 Constituency
- June Momentum for Climate Change – UNFCCC
- Driving a Green and Resilient Recovery – OECD and WWF