Healthy wetlands offer economic opportunities, support jobs, and provide livelihoods, but they are being lost. Business as usual is not working. We need international partnerships to mobilise actors and scale finance and...
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Nature-based Solutions (NbS) are increasingly seen as a way to meet the objectives of several global agreements and can be central to a just transition – if the right mix of just transition policies are implemented. But there is...
We kindly invite you to the 2nd EU-UN Annual Dialogue on Prevention, Stabilisation and Peacebuilding, to be held on 7-10 June 2022 in a hybrid format. While the event takes place at a difficult moment for international relations...
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...
This report is the second in a series of annual New Plastics Economy Global Commitment progress reports. It looks at how Global Commitment signatories, which together account for more than 20% of the plastic packaging market, are...
In 1945, world leaders gathered in San Francisco to sign the Charter of the United Nations, which gave birth to an organization that represented new hope for a world emerging from the horrors of the Second World War. Our founders...
This new report – Gender, Climate & Security: Sustaining Inclusive Peace on the Frontlines of Climate Change – by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), UN Women, the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the UN Department of...
As global attention focuses on both containing the spread of COVID-19 and managing the economic fallout, national and global recovery plans will determine if future threats to human wellbeing and our economies are mitigated or...
First released in 2005, this report is the industry standard for the status of renewables for a given year. The GSR’s robust process for collecting data and information makes it the most frequently referenced report on renewable...
This brief highlights the intricate linkage between environmental degradation and conflicts and the potential of climate change to increase the risk of conflicts. The brief uses the case of South Sudan to demonstrate this feedback...