Nairobi, 3 September 2021 - WHO, UNDP, UNEP and UNICEF have partnered to create a new compendium of 500 actions aimed at reducing death and diseases driven by environmental risk factors, the first such resource to unite this...
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A new report on Coral Reef Restoration launched today kickstarts the launch of the United Nations Decade of Ecosystem Restoration and of the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. Coral reefs are some...
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) stands with the billions of people suffering from the COVID-19 pandemic. The immediate priority is to protect them. But UNEP also has a duty to help nations build back better after...
Only a quarter of land on Earth is substantively free of the impacts of human activity. This is projected to decline to just one tenth by 2050. The implications of such a drastic change in the natural environment for human health...
The African Elephant Fund, which is a partnership venture between the United Nations Environment Programme, the Secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, donor States and...
This publication provides a snapshot of the progress being made to adopt and implement key actions that can significantly improve air quality.
This assessment report summarizes and highlights the environmental and socio-economic causes and impacts of Sand and Dust Storms (SDS), as well as availabe technical measures for their mitigation, at the local, regional and global...
In 2013-2016, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the European Commission (EC) supported a pilot demonstration project on Ecosystem-based Disaster Risk Reduction (Eco-DRR) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo...
On the occasion of World Water Day 2017, celebrated this year on 22 March under the theme of wastewater, UN Environment launched a new UN Environment Freshwater Strategy 2017-2021. In this period, it will be crucial to tackle the...