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New Delhi, June 4, 2018 – As celebrations gear up for World Environment Day on 5 June, delegates and policymakers connect with India's business sector and innovators to explore how to beat plastic pollution, at the…

For World Environment Day, India is announcing that it will be cleaning up 100 of its historic monuments, including the famous Taj Mahal. Learn more about World Environment Day. 

Nairobi, 4 June 2018 – Today, the International Olympic Committee announced an ambitious plan to eradicate single-use plastics from the organisation and its events around the world with seven major sporting bodies…

5 Jun 2018 -  United Nations Secretary-General video message on World Environment Day 2018. This World Environment Day (5 June) UN Environment is asking you, companies and civil society groups, to take a…

Happy World Environment Day! We're sharing the latest news on the day's celebrations across the globe. 

By Erik Solheim, Head of UN Environment What you don’t know can’t hurt you. Of all the oft-repeated maxims, this one is perhaps the most dangerous. Many things we didn’t know turned out to hurt us. In the 1930s,…

Gujarat, India’s westernmost state, is quickly becoming an industrial powerhouse. Companies that produce petro-chemicals, fertilizers and pharmaceutical products dominate the state’s economic landscape, providing…

Periods. Over half the world menstruates. Yet conversations about periods are rare. Rarer still are discussions about the environmental impact of female hygiene products. Beyond the social taboo, menstrual…

Single-use plastic products – things like water bottles, straws, polystyrene plates – have become a ubiquitous in our modern lives. Researchers estimate that 300 million tonnes of plastic are produced every year,…

Our planet is in the midst of a plastic waste epidemic. Researchers estimate that more than 8.3 billion tonnes of plastic have been produced since the early 1950s. About 60 per cent of that plastic has ended up in…