The road to the strategy on the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration
The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021–2030 is expected to be a
global call to action, drawing together political support, scientific research
and financial muscle to...
How Miss Environment is regreening her town in Kenya
Ahead of International Women’s Day, UN Women is celebrating people of every gender, age, ethnicity, race,
religion and country, who are driving actions that will...
Biodiversity ‘fundamental’ for global food systems, at “heart’ of development
Because the production of everything we eat transforms the
environment, the United Nations agriculture chief told a
high-level UN meeting on biodiversity that careful
discussions are needed to decide on the scale
of acceptable transformations.
Qu Dongyu, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO), told negotiators on Monday that as agriculture...
Towards advancing green business and circular economy in Africa
Policy makers and stakeholders across Africa are meeting to chart green
economy opportunities in the agriculture sector under the lead of the Switch
Africa Green programme....
Afghan youth are helping shape the country’s first national environmental policy
Over 40 years of conflict and insecurity have taken their toll on
Afghanistan in countless ways. Amongst the casualties, nature. For example,
interminable conflict has increased...
Mobile game aims to bridge gap between citizens and leaders on climate action
Millions
of people worldwide will get to share their views on climate
action through a UN campaign launched on Thursday aimed
at connecting them with Governments and policy makers.
The
Mission 1.5 campaign is built
around an internet...
WWF: US Will Suffer World’s Biggest Economic Impact Due to Nature Loss
A new World
Wildlife Fund report reveals for the first time the countries whose economies
would be worst affected over the next 30 years if the...
Why Australia’s 2019-2020 bushfire season was not normal, in three graphs
Data
from satellite sources assembled by the United Nations Environment Programme’s
(UNEP) World Environment
Situation Room confirms that the wildfires in Australia in the last two
months of...
Bamako Convention: Protect Africa from hazardous waste dumping
The third
Conference of the Parties (COP 3) to the Bamako Convention today adopted a set
of decisions reaffirming the Parties’ commitment to strengthen the Convention
in...
Lao PDR: Additional World Bank Financing for Sustainable Forest Management
The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved US$5 million
in additional financing to the Scaling-Up Participatory Sustainable Forest
Management Project, which will help the...