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On World Environment Day, a clear message resonated across the globe: we must heal the planet, we must start now and we must work together because everyone has a role to play in reviving the world’s ailing…
Under the theme, Life and Livelihoods, this World Oceans Day (8 June 2021) launches a decade of challenges to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal 14 to conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine…
Most school children in South Africa learn about ecosystems – like wetlands and river basins – in the classroom and from textbooks. But a new programme is using videos and animation to give pupils an up-close look…
Islamabad/Nairobi, 5 June 2021 – Individuals, communities, civil society, businesses and governments around the world today marked World Environment Day – with official celebrations held in Islamabad – by making…
Speech prepared for delivery at the World Environment Day celebrations 2021 hosted by the government of Pakistan. Thank you to Prime Minister Imran Khan, Minister Malik Amin Aslam Khan and the Ministry of Climate…
The UN Environment Programme, working in partnership with the UN Department of Global Communications, held a virtual Youth Flagship Event to commemorate World Environment Day on 4 June, 2021, under the theme…
The rare Markhor goat pictured in Pakistan. Photo: Unsplash/Nick SokolovWhen researcher Ashiq Ahmed Khan first visited Pakistan’s rugged Sulaiman Mountains, in 1982, he was there to study the markhor, a near-…
In June 2021, on the margins of World Environment Day, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and partners launched the Transformative Partnership Platform on agroecology - a farming approach that’s…
There is deepening recognition that nature is fundamental to the existence and flourishing of a nation’s economy. We, humans, are embedded in Nature for most of our needs. The measurement of our dependence on Nature would help to manage them better…
With the world beginning to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, there is increasing recognition that healing from the pandemic is linked to healing the planet. Resetting humanity’s relationship with nature will be…
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