Global Partnership on Plastic Pollution and Marine Litter (GPML)- digital tools to move towards a future without plastic pollution

The UNEP-DHI Centre is supporting the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in its efforts to curb plastic pollution by developing digital solutions to estimate plastic pollution in rivers and freshwater ecosystems, as well as in facilitating data sharing on plastics across organisations and nations.

2024 edition of online course: Gender and Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)  

Gender and Integrated Water Resources Management, developed in partnership with UNEP -DHI,  Cap-Net UNDP, Gender Water Alliance (GWA) and Global water Partnership (GWP), is an online, free and self-paced course that offers six modules designed to help practitioners integrate gender in all aspects of sustainable water management.

Why coordinating climate and water management action matters – Findings from the latest SDG 6.5.1 report to read for COP 29 

Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) needs to be part of the discussion for the climate change adaptation agenda at UNFCCC COP 29. With the conference running in Baku, Azerbaijan from November 11th to 22nd, it’s an opportune moment to assess the coordination between water resources management and climate actions.

Generation Restoration: Urban Nature-based Solutions Tool 

The UNEP-DHI Centre is developing an online tool to support upscaling of urban Nature based Solutions (NBS) climate solutions, under UNEP’s Generation Restoration initiative (2023-2025). The Urban NBS Tool will support the identification and assessment of key environmental data in the project cities, with the goal to better understand climate risks and NBS potential to address these risks within the pilot cities.

SDG 6.5.1 Progress Report launched at World Water Week

The 2024 global progress report gives an overview of the status of Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) around the world as of 2023. Findings show global progress towards IWRM implementation has increased from 49% in 2017 to 57% in 2023. But the world is not on track to reach the 2030 target and will not achieve sustainable water management until at least 2049 – 25 years from now. Read the full report to learn more!