The 4th Edition Green Technology Book explores how innovation is reshaping disaster risk management in the face of climate crises. It presents practical and cutting-edge solutions, from AI forecasting to resilient infrastructure, enabled by a strong intellectual property system.
The ‘Climate Mitigation in Wastewater Treatment: A practical guide’ provides practical strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the wastewater sector. It outlines methods for monitoring emissions, optimizing treatment processes, and implementing policy and technology solutions to help WWTPs move toward net-zero emissions while supporting global sanitation goals.
UNEP-DHI is providing technical assistance to the Strengthening the Flood Preparedness and Early Warning System in Sudan project in 2023-2024. Funded by the Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN), the project is implemented in partnership with the Nile Water Affairs Department of the Ministry of Irrigation and Water Resources, Sudan.
In collaboration with UNEP, Cap-Net, and ILEC, UNEP-DHI Centre is launching the 2025 edition of its Sustainable Lake Management (SLM) course. This online, free and self-paced course offers five modules to improve the understanding of fundamental principles of SLM and to equip participants with tools to develop, implement and refine a participatory lake recovery plan that promotes the sustainable use of lake resources.
Integrated Water Resources Management for Climate Resilience, developed by UNEP-DHI in partnership with Cap-Net UNDP, UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre, UN-Habitat, Global Water Partnership and UNDP, is an online, free and self-paced course that offers five modules designed to help practitioners plan climate resilient measures in the water sector.
The WIPO GREEN database is a free, solutions oriented, global innovation catalogue that connects needs for solving environmental or climate change problems with tangible solutions. The database consists of user uploads of needs and solutions, green technology patents from the WIPO Patentscope database, imports from select partner organizations, relevant knowledge material, and relevant expert profiles.
The continued deterioration of water quality poses one of the biggest threats to human and ecosystem health worldwide. This free online course provides participants with key insights on water pollution drivers, stakeholder involvement, and strategic planning for pollution prevention and management needed to tackle this issue.
The UNEP-DHI Centre is supporting the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in the five-year “RESTORE” initiative by delivering detailed hydrological assessments and decision-support modelling that will guide the rehabilitation and sustainable operation of the Jowhar Off-stream Storage Programme, strengthen flood and drought management across the Shabelle Basin, and build climate-resilient livelihoods for communities in south-central Somalia.
In partnership with Integrated Drought Management Programme, Cap-Net UNDP, WMO, GWP, and the Volta Flood and Drought Management project, UNEP-DHI developed an online course on Integrated Drought Management: Monitoring and Early Warning. It is designed to improve understanding of proactive integrated drought management and introduces available tools for drought monitoring and forecasting.
Do you want to learn how to design and implement a successful government endorsed IWRM action plan? Sign up to this free online course for a clear, step-by-step guide.
Stakeholder Consultations were held in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, between 13-14th of March 2025 by UNEP and UNEP-DHI with a focus to develop a Hydrological Decision Support System (HDSS) for the Lac Tele-Lac Tumba landscape.
The 2025 Policy Note on Mainstreaming Gender in Water Resources Management serves as a call to action for practitioners in water management and gender mainstreaming. With only five years left to achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 on gender equality and SDG 6 on water and sanitation, urgent action is needed to scale up efforts and accelerate joint progress.
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