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Baghdad/Geneva, 4 May 2021 - Mosul – Iraq’s second largest city – suffered massive devastation during the conflict with the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). An estimated 7-8 million tonnes of debris was…
On 27 and 28 March 2019, the Governorate of Kirkuk in collaboration with the University of Kirkuk, and the support of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) and UN Environment Programme (UNEP), held a Debris Management Workshop at the…
Ramadi, 12 November 2018 – Aiming for more sustainable options for dealing with the huge amounts of rubble borne out of the ISIL conflict, municipalities of around half a dozen devastated cities in western Iraq…
Despite decades of war and conflict that have weakened its management institutions, Iraq is looking to the future and has made chemical and waste management a national priority. Iraq is now Party to the Basel,…
UN Environment conducts a five-day training workshop for 26 national experts from Iraq’s ministries of environment and oil. Workshop strengthens national capacity to assess and clean-up oil-contaminated sites from…
Almost from the moment he could walk, Muhammad Siddik Barzani has delighted in his native Barzan region’s rich flora and fauna. From the herds of curly-horned wild goats, some 5,000 of whom wander the steep rocky…
Based on an official request from the Iraqi Government for support in assessing the environmental impacts from the ISIL conflict, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) is providing technical assistance since July 2017 to national partners in…
“It is a splendid city, beautifully built; the climate is pleasant, the water healthy,” the 10th-Century Muslim geographer al-Muqqadasi once described the Iraqi city of Mosul. In July 2017 the city was liberated…
On an unseasonably warm winter afternoon in Baghdad, Sheikh Anmar Ayid hitches up his robe and crouches by the Tigris river. Rocking back and forth on his haunches, he flicks the water from side to side – all the…
During the period July – November 2017, UN Environment undertook two rapid scoping missions in areas formerly occupied by the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in northern and western Iraq, with a focus on the city of Mosul and…
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