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The world has a once-in-a-generation chance to profoundly change humanity’s relationship with plastic. That is the message from officials ahead of “pivotal” talks next week on a legally binding global instrument to end plastic pollution.
Humanity generates between 2.1 billion and 2.3 billion tonnes of municipal solid waste a year.
Spanish officials declare a state of emergency due to drought. Unprecedented water shortages hammer Mexico City. Severely parched Zambia warns of a national disaster.
These are just some of the water-related headlines from the past few weeks.
When it comes to climate change, carbon dioxide is the gas that grabs most of the headlines. But there is another gas that is contributing to the superheating of the planet: methane.
Ecuador, India, Kenya, Laos, Philippines, Uruguay, and Vietnam have joined forces to reduce the environmental impact of the agricultural sector
Highly hazardous pesticides and plastic waste from agriculture release toxic persistent organic pollutants into the environment, also harming human health
$379 million initiative will realign financial incentives to prevent the use of harmful inputs in food production
In a video address at the sixth session of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-6), UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called on countries to come together to address the planet’s most-pressing environmental challenges.
“You have shown before that you can unite and deliver,” he told delegates. “I urge you to do so again – and go further.“
Clean Air Flagship launched to save lives and slow climate change by boosting cooperation and reducing pollutant emissions
UNEP and CCAC’s Used Heavy Duty Vehicles (HDVs) and the Environment report provides roadmap to reducing sector’s emissions through standardizing, monitoring, and greening strategies
Nairobi, 22 February 2024 – While heavy-duty vehicle (HDV) exports represent a modest 3.6% of the global automotive trade's total value, their associated CO2 emissions have surged by over 30% since 2000, with trucks contributing 80% to this increase.
Ever since the first lump of coal was burned thousands of years ago, fossil fuels have played a central part in the story of humanity. But as the world transitions away from these planet-warming energy sources, demand is shifting towards a subset of minerals such as lithium, nickel and cobalt.
Nairobi, 19 February 2024 - The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) today released its Annual Report (2023), which details the work of the organization last year to provide key science and solutions on the
As a single parent in her late 30s, Ganga Didi long worried about being able to provide for her child. Barely able to survive on her wages from cleaning office buildings in Kathmandu, she started looking for better opportunities.
For months last year, Florida’s beachgoers were plagued by rotting tangles of decaying seaweed that had washed ashore. Known technically as sargassum, the thick clumps were part of a record-setting 8,000-kilometre-long seaweed belt in the Atlantic Ocean.
Drive down the dusty roads of Jamaica’s rural Mount Airy district and one will see dozens of black water tanks, many connected with drainpipes to the rooftops of neighbouring houses.
The tanks measure two metres tall. They collect rainwater and through a drip irrigation system, channel it to nearby fields brimming with tomatoes, peppers and sweet potatoes.
Drive down the dusty roads of Jamaica’s rural Mount Airy district and one will see dozens of black water tanks, many connected with drainpipes to the rooftops of neighbouring houses.
The tanks measure two metres tall. They collect rainwater and through a drip irrigation system, channel it to nearby fields brimming with tomatoes, peppers and sweet potatoes.
The year 2023 was a landmark one for the global governance of chemicals and waste, with negotiations on a science-policy panel for sound chemical management and talks on an instrument to end plastic pollution both making headway.
The year 2023 was a landmark one for the global governance of chemicals and waste, with negotiations on a science-policy panel for sound chemical management and talks on an instrument to end plastic pollution both making headway.
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the greatest global health threats.
Negotiators will gather in Nairobi, Kenya, from 13-19 November for the latest in a series of talks designed to forge a legally binding global instrument to end plastic pollution.
King Charles III visited 50 Scouts and Girl Guides on Nyali Beach in southeastern Kenya, during last week’s royal visit, highlighting the work of the Tide Turners, a global United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)-led youth movement to combat plastic pollution.
Among the decisions made at COP-5, Parties defined new dates to phase out mercury-added products including cosmetics, strengthened ties with Indigenous Peoples, advanced the first effectiveness evaluation of the Convention, and reached an agreement on a threshold for mercury waste.
Geneva, 4 November 2023 - With more than 800 participants and 900 online viewers, the fifth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to t
As the sun rises across Mexico’s Sierra Gorda nature reserve, a golden light illuminates its nearly 400,000 hectares of mountains, gorges and valleys.
Set amid this vast wilderness is the Bucareli mercury mine.
Just after dawn, a metal door to the mine opens. The morning’s silence is broken by the dull sound of a generator and workers traipsing to their posts.
It is October 2013, and Rimiko Yoshinaga is standing behind a podium in Minamata, Japan, gazing at an auditorium packed with world leaders.
Silence descends upon the room as she begins recounting how a mysterious illness had killed her father decades earlier.
Colombo, 5 October 2023 – Environment Ministers and senior officials from the Asia and the Pacific region pledged concerted action to tackle the crises of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution at the Fifth Forum of Ministers and Environment Authorities of Asia Pacific, with the aims of restoring plane
Bonn, 30 September 2023 – The Fifth International Conference on Chemicals Management (ICCM5) concluded today in Bonn, Germany, with the adoption of a comprehensive global framework that sets concrete targets and guidelines for key sectors across the entire lifecycle of chemicals.
For two decades, paint maker Universal Colors has churned out an assortment of paints and industrial coatings from a small factory in Callao, Peru. Over time, the company has worked to weed out lead, a toxic chemical, from its products. But two varieties of paint proved to be especially problematic to reformulate, including one yellow epoxy paint.
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