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Under the theme “Changing Today for a Better Tomorrow”, leading environmentalists, academics, government figures and sports experts will discuss a range of subjects, including Russian legacies pre- and post-Sochi…
Nairobi, 28 October 2013 - Hundreds of high-level delegates from 150 countries and across the United Nations system gathered at the headquarters of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) in Nairobi on Monday to tackle…
The United Nations Climate Convention meeting in Warsaw, Poland, comes with less than two years to go for governments to deliver on their promise of a universal new agreement by 2015 - this is the time for ambition…
Copenhagen, 23 October, 2013 - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) today opened a new global centre for Energy Efficiency…
Nairobi, 24 October 2013 - More than 1,000 participants, including government ministers, will gather in Nairobi on Monday, 28 October, to launch the annual Global South-South Development Expo. The event, which…
With more than a billion people living in absolute poverty, with inequality levels between countries and within countries steadily rising, and with the degradation and loss of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning…
Nairobi, 8 October - UNEP's Division of Communication and Public Information (DCPI) has launched a trailblazing new project to digitize the organization's books, reference materials and other publications. The…
Vienna, 7 October 2013 - Some 3.5 billion people, or half of the world’s population, are without access to crucial waste management services, posing significant environmental and health hazards and harming…
Stockholm, 27 September 2013 - A major international assessment of climate change adopted here by 110 governments provides conclusive new scientific evidence that human activities are causing unprecedented changes…
United Nations, New York, 25 September 2013 - World leaders agreed today to scale up action against extreme poverty, hunger and disease and called for a 2015 Summit to adopt the next set of Goals to focus continued…
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