A little over a year ago, Nidia Cely spotted a bright green public bus driving down the street in Bogota, Colombia. At the time, Cely had just lost her husband of 17 years to COVID-19 and was struggling to support her two teenage daughters as a delivery …
Paris, 8 March 2024 – The first ever Buildings and Climate Global Forum, organised by the French Government and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), concluded yesterday with the adoption by representatives of 70 countries of the Declaration de Chaillot, a …
Ecuador, India, Kenya, Laos, Philippines, Uruguay, and Vietnam have joined forces to reduce the environmental impact of the agricultural sector Highly hazardous pesticides and plastic waste from agriculture release toxic persistent organic pollutants into …
Nairobi, 07 April 2024: The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) welcomes the announcement of the impending release of four conservationists imprisoned in the Islamic Republic of Iran, including former UNEP colleague Niloufar Bayani. According to …
Throughout Indonesia, traditional customs like Ri’i that belong to the country’s myriad ethnic groups and local communities are deeply intertwined in ongoing efforts to protect the environment and its vital ecosystems, especially in the face of …
The world is warming at a record pace, with unseasonable heat baking nearly every continent on Earth. April, the last month for which statistics are available, marked the 11th consecutive month the planet has set a new temperature high. Experts say that is …
After months of preparation and five days of official meetings, the sixth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-6) has come to a close. In many ways, it was a landmark gathering of the world’s top decision-making body on the environment. …
Excellencies. It is a pleasure to address this Ministerial meeting of the G20 Environment and Climate Sustainability Working Group. My thanks to Brazil for its leadership of the G20 this year. This leadership is part of a new era, in which developing and …
Belgium is a key supporter of ground-level initiatives that are helping reduce poverty and ensure a just transition in climate-vulnerable parts of the world, such as Africa. One of those projects is the Pan-African Action Plan for Active Mobility (PAAPAM), …
Protecting forests is also important to improve global air quality. New research now shows that trees, in addition to storing carbon and removing ozone and particulate matter from the air, serve as a net sink of methane, a potent greenhouse gas that also …
Protecting forests is also important to improve global air quality. New research now shows that trees, in addition to storing carbon and removing ozone and particulate matter from the air, serve as a net sink of methane, a potent greenhouse gas that also …
Supporting all these species requires having vast areas of healthy land, fertile soils and vegetation. In Saudi Arabia, development, overgrazing, rising temperatures and increasingly harsh climate-related shocks, such as sand and dust storms, have eroded …
Supporting all these species requires having vast areas of healthy land, fertile soils and vegetation. In Saudi Arabia, development, overgrazing, rising temperatures and increasingly harsh climate-related shocks, such as sand and dust storms, have eroded …
The campaign for 2024 World Environment Day officially kicks off on 28 April in Riyadh, in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. World Environment Day, which takes place every year on 5 June, is the biggest international day for the environment. Led by the …
While taking in the views around the monastery, Burhans started thinking about how much property the Catholic Church owned and how it could be used to protect nature, restore fragile ecosystems and fight climate change. Though the Catholic Church has one …
COP16 comes in a year that drought has wracked countries from Latin America to Europe to Southern Africa. “COP16 is a pivotal conference, one that must prioritize resilience-based responses to tackling the escalating crisis of land degradation,” said …
Welcome to the third authors’ meeting on the GEO-7. My thanks to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan for co-hosting this gathering and to my colleague Mr. Nader Al-Tarawneh. My thanks also to the over 200 experts here in Nairobi, and to the reviewers across …
When the Olympic Games opened last week in Paris, France, they did so with the promise they would be the greenest in history. Among other things, organizers say the games will run entirely on renewable energy, feature mostly locally grown food and cut- …
Brasília, July 1 2024 — In a move to renew and increate collaboration on the propriety issues of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, and waste and pollution, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Ministry of Environment and …
“The blue swimming crab is key to our livelihoods,” says Hemmanee. “Since my grandfather's generation, we have been crab fishers. I worry about what the next generation will have left if we don't change our ways.” Investing in the future …
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