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Colombia was one of the first countries in Latin America to adopt the use of ecolabels in 2005 with the aim of helping consumers make sustainable choices. UNEP, with financial support from the European Union, has…
As satellites from NASA zipped over the planet Earth yesterday, they saw what they have seen every day for months: fires, hundreds of them, tearing through virgin rainforest and other vital ecosystems. Many of the…
Resources for stakeholders fighting against the illegal trade and management of waste. Illegal trade in waste can cause significant damage to the environment and can have devastating health and economic impacts to the society. In recognition of the…
Small Island Developing States (SIDS), such as the Caribbean Island of Grenada, face a double exposure to external economic and environmental shocks. This has been made painfully clear by the economic shock caused…
Bamba Ibrahim, a 35-year-old cocoa farmer in Agboville in the Ivory Coast grew up in a family of cocoa farmers, helping his family with the farm while going to school. But When he was 15, he started farming full-…
Samba Lahy recalls the time when, as a young man, he used to go fishing with his parents off the coast of Tampolove, one of the fishing villages dotting the southwestern coast of Madagascar. Every time his family…
When ‘Akilisi Pōhiva, the Prime Minister of Tonga, shed tears at a regional summit on climate change in August, it brought home the agony of Pacific islanders grappling with the reality of global warming and rising…
This report aims to enhance understanding of the implications, capacity needs and enabling conditions for trade liberalization of environmentally sound technologies (ESTs), with focus on developing countries. It focuses its analysis on five ESTs,…
“There’s a rang-tan in my bedroom and I don’t know what to do,” the small girl says. The rang tang replies, “there’s a human in my forest and I don’t know what to do.” Does this ring a bell? It originates from an…
Cambridge, 18 February 2019 – UN Environment and partners gathered in Cambridge today to kick-start a new project aiming to make trade a positive force for both nature conversation and marginalised people. The…
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