In a new video, UNEP explores how one group of chemical compounds is feeding climate change and stoking air pollution.

The Indus River and its tributaries have nurtured human civilization on the Indian sub-continent since the Bronze Age. Several millennia later, modern-day Pakistan still depends heavily on the river ...

Colombian cities are transforming urban areas with nature to lessen the fallout from climate change and save biodiversity.

Azima Magonde Giston is walking through his cacao plantation, which sits on the fringes of a lush rainforest in the northern ...

For much of his life, cattle farmer Asherly William Hogo was consumed with finding water for his herd. Hogo, who is in his early sixties, still has vivid childhood memories of rising in the middle of ...

I welcome the G20 Environment and Climate Sustainability Working Group Ministerial Declaration. This declaration both acknowledges the G20’s responsibility for the majority of greenhouse gas emissions ...

The Global Framework on Chemicals (GFC) Secretariat and the Green Growth Knowledge Partnership (GGKP) are hosting a community of practice discussion on the Global Framework on Chemicals Fund. The ...

This workshop, organized by UNEP’s IMEO, will facilitate discussion of methane measurement techniques applicable in Colombia to support the design of an IMEO "Baseline Study" by the Universidad ...

The following table lists all the resolutions, decisions and declarations adopted since 1973 from the sessions of the Governing Council (GC) and of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA). The ...

Beijing has made great strides in curbing vehicle emissions and pushing electric mobility, and in the process, improved the air quality for its 21 million citizens. It’s a quiet, frosty morning in ...

The Marine Litter MED II project, funded by the European Commission, DG Environment (EC-DG ENV), further supports the implementation of the updated Regional Plan on Marine Litter Management in the ...