Executive Director Inger Andersen affirms that UNEP and UN-Habitat are joining forces to build greener, more resilient, and ...

UNEP-backed initiatives are supporting efforts in India to integrate sustainable cooling solutions into policies and city ...

Some 20 million people globally collect plastic waste to make a living. In developing countries without formal reuse and ...

A UNEP-backed initiative in Rwanda is helping restore forests and wetlands while equipping farmers with livelihoods that are ...

A growing number of cities are attempting to use data, often painstakingly gathered through dumpsite visits and household ...

A new ecological corridor of around 800,000 hectares, or 8,000 km², has been announced by the Kyrgyz Republic today.

Iraq will launch key climate reports during a high-level ceremony in Baghdad under the patronage and in the presence of Dr. Hallo Mustafa Al Askari, Minister of Environment of the Republic of Iraq, ...

Cities consume over two-thirds of the world’s energy and have a unique role to play in the global energy transition across buildings, transport, heating/cooling, industry, and power grids (IEA, 2021).

Seaweeds are a diverse collection of organisms encompassing over 12,000 identified species separated into three groups: reds, browns, and greens. Kelp refers to over 100 species of large brown seaweed ...

Area-based planning and management is an approach that enables the application of planning and management measures to an area/zone which does not necessarily have clearly defined boundaries to achieve ...

This workshop is organised by UNEP in collaboration with the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Government of Samoa ...

Biological diversity is often understood in terms of the wide variety of plants, animals and microorganisms, but it also includes genetic differences within each species — for example, between ...