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T1 Environment in COVID-19 Humanitarian Response in Latin America and the Caribbean: Articulating Social and Environmental Policy for Post-COVID-19 Recovery - Policy Brief
T2 Medio ambiente en la respuesta humanitaria ante la COVID-19 en América Latina y el Caribe: Articulación de políticas sociales y ambientales para la recuperación pos-COVID-19 — Informe de políticas
A1 United Nations Environment Programme, 
K1 COVID-19
K1 waste management
K1 environmental aspect
K1 environmental emergency
K1 emergency shelter
K1 health centre
SN Not Available
YR 2020
FD 2020
LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/32611
UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/32611
NO The Latin America and the Caribbean region has a large caseload of refugees, migrants and internally displaced people as well as slum-dwellers and the urban poor, who are some of the most vulnerable groups and disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 crisis. They are more vulnerable to the virus due to existing morbidity, greater exposure to air pollution, overcrowded homes, the predominance of informal work and poor environmental health. Failure to engage with the response phase of the emergency would mean that the environmental damage from a response which does not consider environmental impacts would already have been done. Failure by humanitarian actors to address the environmental dimensions of the situation and the response would be against the principle of Do No Harm. This paper attempts to contextualise UN Environment Programme’s and policy options in the shorter-term humanitarian phases of the emergency to the reality of the region.
NO https://www.unep.org/resources/policy-and-strategy/articulating-social-and-environmental-policy-post-covid-19-recovery
DS UN Environment Document Repository
RD Sep 17, 2026