The Commission for Environmental Cooperation and UN Environment Launch Video Contest to Bring Attention to Food Waste
Press Release | November 1, 2016The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) and UN Environment are launching a video contest, calling on the public to share how they're ensuring #NotWasting by submitting a 60-second video online.
A victory for Lewis Pugh's 'Speedo diplomacy' as Russia and the world agree monumental marine protection deal
Press Release | October 28, 2016The Ross Sea is widely considered to be the last great wilderness area on Earth and known as the polar 'Garden of Eden'.
Mosul battle brings environmental damage, with serious impacts on health, prospects of recovery
Press Release | October 27, 2016- 19 oil wells have been set ablaze following the launch of military operations to retake the city of Mosul from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)
- Burning stockpiles of sulphur dioxide at an industrial facility created a large toxic cloud and temporarily hampered the delivery of humanitarian assistance
- Water plant also reportedly affected by fighting, leading to a chlorine gas leak
- Environmental pollution is adding complexity and danger to the...
Norway and UN Environment sign $33 Million Cooperation Agreement
External Cooperation | October 27, 2016Norway is a key partner for us in putting the environment at the heart of efforts to improve life for people across the globe.”
Tropical Landscapes Finance Facility unlocks private sector finance for climate, biodiversity and jobs
Press Release | October 26, 2016The facility will use public funding to unlock private finance in renewable energy production, and sustainable landscape management that reduces deforestation and forest degradation and restores degraded lands.
What's next for the Kigali deal to curb potent greenhouse gases?
Press Release | October 20, 2016Limiting the use of HFCs under the Montreal Protocol is expected to prevent the emissions of up to 105 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent of greenhouse gases, helping to avoid up to 0.5 degree Celsius of global temperature rise by 2100.
Urgent investment needed in walking and cycling infrastructure to save millions of lives and combat climate change
Press Release | October 20, 2016Some 1.3 million people die each year on the roads, almost half of them pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists.
Reforesting Africa's highest mountain could halt severe water shortages - UN Environment
Press Release | October 19, 2016- Rivers begin to dry up as the loss of Mt Kilimanjaro's forests triggers water crisis
- Climate change has destroyed 13,000 hectares of the mountain's forests since 1976 – equivalent to cutting off a year's supply of drinking water for 1 million people
- East Africa's glaciers expected to disappear within a few decades
Countries agree to curb powerful greenhouse gases in largest climate breakthrough since Paris
Press Release | October 15, 2016- Reducing emissions of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) under the Kigali Amendment can prevent up to 0.5°C of global warming, while continuing to protect the ozone layer
- HFCs consumption to be reduced in 2019 in developed countries and frozen in 2024 and 2028 in developing countries
UN Environment Announces Co-chairs for Sixth Edition of Landmark State of World Environment Report (GEO-6)
Press Release | October 12, 2016New GEO-6 website provides access to vital information and data
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