Publications & Knowledge

The United Nations Environment Programme provides open-access scientific, technical and policy resources to support evidence-based decision-making for a sustainable planet. These include publications and knowledge products, a public beta version of Environment-GPT, real-time environmental data and interactive platforms.

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Publications

Our planet. Our purpose: UNEP Annual Report 2025

The 2025 Annual Report explores UNEP’s results and impacts across climate action, nature and land action, pollution action and more.

Global Environment Outlook 7

The Global Environment Outlook, Seventh Edition: A Future We Choose, the product of 287 multi-disciplinary scientists from 82 countries, is the most… read more

Emissions Gap Report 2025

UNEP’s Emissions Gap Report 2025: Off Target finds that available new climate pledges under the Paris Agreement have only slightly lowered… read more

Adaptation Gap Report 2025

Amid rising global temperatures and intensifying climate impacts, UNEP’s 2025 Adaptation Gap Report: Running on Empty finds that a yawning gap in… read more

Frontiers 2025: The Weight of Time

The Frontiers Report spotlights emerging environmental issues before they escalate into global or regional crises. While these issues may currently… read more
Knowledge

UNEP Knowledge Repository

An open access platform that provides trusted UNEP scientific and policy resources to strengthen evidence-based decision-making and advance solutions… read more

World Environment Situation Room

The WESR is the new UNEP data, information and knowledge platform providing users access to validated content to support environmental decision… read more

Environment-GPT

UNEP's public beta chatbot draws on a limited curated library of UNEP and selected partner publications to deliver accurate, cited, and easy-to-… read more

UNEA Monitoring and Reporting Portal

Primary portal for member states, other parties and UNEP subprogrammes to report progress on agreed UNEA outcomes and resolutions

Air Quality Monitoring Platform

The largest real-time air quality databank, bundling real-time air quality data for particulate matter (PM2.5) from thousands of initiatives run by… read more