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Preventing disease and ecosystem damage is cost-effective Developing countries can boost their economies while dodging the health and environmental damage that scarred earlier industrialization by adopting strict…

Planting trees in drylands is tricky, but the Moroccan city of Ouarzazate (known as “the door to the desert”) has taken up the challenge – using wastewater. The city depends on the El Mansour Eddahbi dam for its…

What is the first thing you think of when you hear the word pollution? Billowing dark clouds rising out of a smokestack at a local factory. Thousands of cars on a highway adding to the smog layer above. Or maybe…

It takes hundreds of millions of years to produce fossil fuels by natural processes but new scientific research is looking to short-cut that process by using waste carbon dioxide (CO2). To avoid the worst effects…

26 July 2017 – It is common knowledge that when plastic ends up in the ocean, it negatively impacts the livelihoods of fisherfolk and the tourism sector, especially for iconic locations such as Cartagena on  …

Twenty-eight chemicals that cause health problems including cancer and reproductive disorders – and sometimes death – are banned or restricted under the Stockholm Convention, one of the most critical international…

The countdown is on until Kenya’s national ban on plastic bags takes effect, with retailers across the country instructed to be ready to comply with the new law when it goes into force on 28 August. “We have served…

Pastoralism, with its multi-sectoral benefits, is undervalued Nairobi, 9 June 2016 - Pastoralists are stewards of rangelands covering a quarter of the planet’s land surface, providing high value food and protecting…

Call for global ban on the use of lead in paint by 2020 to prevent enormous economic losses and safeguard the health of future generations At the start of the 18th Century a mysterious disease known as the “dry-…

Climate change is the biggest “mega trend” endangering millions of lives across the planet, and UN Environment has a key role to play in building resilience and helping people and nations to adapt. This was the…