Resources
The Quaker United Nations Office conducts in-depth research and analysis on a range of topics relating to our core areas of focus and in conjunction with various partners. Search this archive or filter by topic to access our publications, including research papers, annual reports, significant statements of our positions, and more.
Plastic Money: Turning Off the Subsidies Tap (Phase 1)
QUNO’s Sustainable and Just Economic Systems programme, in partnership with Eunomia Research & Consulting Ltd., has published the Phase 1...
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New Report: Strategies for Asian countries to end plastic pollution
Against the backdrop of Asia’s struggle with burgeoning plastic waste, the Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) has published a new...
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QUNO’s INC-3 Joint Submission with IUCN on Plastic Subsidies
At its second session, the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee requested the Secretariat to invite written submissions on (a) Elements not discussed...
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QUNO’s Contribution to Zero Draft for MC13 Outcome – Dialogue on Plastic Pollution
The SJES team was approached by the DPP (Dialogue on Plastic Pollution) Secretariat for feedback on their Zero Draft in...
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Fair Sources of Finance for a New Loss and Damage Funding Arrangement
Last November, States that took part in COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh agreed to pass a new funding arrangement for responding...
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Rethinking Plastic Pollution Solutions: QUNO’s Insights on Policy Interventions and Reuse Systems at WTO Dialogue
On 16 February 2023, Mr. Andres Naranjo, the Programme Associate for QUNO's Sustainable and Just Economic Systems (SJES), presented at...
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QUNO Statement at the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution
On Wednesday, 30 November 2022, delegates met in plenary to discuss key topics relating to the creation of a new...
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REPORT: “Package-less and Reuse Systems Through Policy Intervention: rethinking packaging in international trade”
With quantities of waste steadily rising worldwide, packaging material and packaging waste have emerged as critical areas for action at...
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COP27 QUNO Statement to the Global Stocktake Technical Dialogue on the Importance of Holistic and Integrated Approaches to International Climate Cooperation
ON 10 November 2022, QUNO Human Impacts of Climate Change representative, Lindsey Fielder Cook, spoke on an expert panel to...
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Geneva Reporter September 2022
QUNO's September 2022 issue of the Geneva Reporter newsletter is available below. This issue includes a welcome letter from our Director Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge...
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QUNO joins submission to the Katowice Committee of Experts on the Impacts of the Implementation of Response Measures
The Human Impacts of Climate Change programme jointly made a submission to the UNFCCC’s Katowice Committee of Experts on the...
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Exploring Structural Barriers to Justice and Sustainability in Economic Systems
QUNO Representative for Sustainable and Just Economic Systems Joachim Monkelbaan contributed to the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung publication “Building Back Better: A Call for...
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Working Paper: Exploring barriers to justice and sustainability in economic systems
This analysis is a work in progress that has been prepared as a working document by QUNO’s Sustainable and Just...
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Small-scale farmer innovation systems: A review of the literature
This literature review marks QUNO’s step back from focusing on intellectual property rights (IPR) to ask more broadly: What are...
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Informal Report and Understandings Emerging from the Second Expert Consultation on QUNO’s New Framework for Trade and Investment in Agriculture (NFTIA), 22-23 May 2014
The current multilateral framework governing international agricultural trade was designed a quarter of a century ago, as part of the...
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Trade Liberalization and Food Security: Examining the Linkages
The paper is released as part of our project working towards a New Framework for Trade & Investment in Agriculture,...
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Geneva Reporter
In this issue: A New Framework for Trade and Investment in Agriculture Update from the UN Human Rights Council QUNO and...
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International Finance and Investment in Agriculture: Trends and Prospects
Presentation shared during an off the record expert consultation convened by QUNO on a New Framework on Trade and Investment...
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