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The 2020 Greening the Blue report -released on 10th December 2020 provides a snapshot of the UN System’s environmental impacts throughout 2019 and the activities underway to reduce them. This year’s report includes 2019 data on greenhouse gas…
This UNEP Vanishing Treasures series features species and climate change briefs for the three iconic and endangered mountain species – the mountain gorilla from the Greater Virunga Landscape, the royal Bengal tiger from Bhutan and the snow leopard…
What’s new in this year’s report The report finds that, despite a brief dip in carbon dioxide emissions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the world is still heading for a temperature rise in excess of 3°C this century – far beyond the Paris Agreement…
The COVID-19 pandemic is increasing poverty and threatening food security. Governments around the world have already invested more than $12 trillion to counteract the economic effects of COVID-19. This investment could contribute to progress on the…
Learn more about how UNEP and our partners are working to reduce plastic waste along the Mississippi River.
To limit warming to 1.5°C or well below 2°C, as required by the 2015 Paris Agreement, the world needs to wind down fossil fuel production. Instead, governments continue to plan to produce coal, oil, and gas far in excess of the levels consistent…
This new Guidance on Reporting to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child on child rights and environmental issues, was developed by the Children's Environmental Rights Initiative, with support from UNEP, Project Dryad, and Terre des Hommes. The…
You might have been following the recent meetings of the Committee of Permanent Representatives of UNEP on the issue of the United Nations Environment Assembly 5th session in February 2021. UNEA Bureau took a decision on the timing and format of…
by Raphael Podselver More than one-third of the world population is overweight or suffering from hunger, proving that our current food system is inefficient and needs urgent transformations. Unhealthy diets exact a high health cost, cause…
The third global coral bleaching event, which started in 2014 and extended well into 2017, was the longest coral bleaching event on record. The length of the event means corals in some parts of the world had no time to recover in 2014, 2015 or 2016…
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