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Air pollution is the greatest environmental threat to public health globally. The World Health Organization (WHO) recently issued stricter recommendations on safe air pollution levels, in a bid to curb the millions of premature deaths and loss of millions more healthy years of life caused by air pollution.
Latest UNEP Emissions Gap Report finds new and updated Nationally Determined Contributions only take 7.5% off predicted 2030 emissions, while 55% is needed to meet the 1.5°C Paris goal
Latest climate promises for 2030 put the world on track for a temperature rise this century of at least 2.7°C
Net-zero commitments could shave off another 0.5°C, if these pledges were made robust and if 2030 promises were made consistent w
Nairobi, 21 October 2021 – A drastic reduction in unnecessary, avoidable and problematic plastic is crucial to addressing the global pollution crisis, according to a comprehensive assessment released today by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).
Kitchen wraps made from banana leaves. Eyeglass frames forged from recycled plastic bottles. And a multi-purpose cleaner no bigger than a pill.
These ideas are the winners of a new competition from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) that’s designed to help counter some of the greatest environmental threats facing Latin America and the Caribbean.
When world leaders attend the make-or-break United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland in a few weeks, they will be ferried around in electric vehicles – a reminder that the transport sector has a critical role to play in
This month’s oil spill in California and the sinking of the X-Press Pearl off the coast of Sri Lanka in July have renewed attention to the environmental dangers of such disasters, especially the
Runners, think you can cover more ground in 10 days than a wild mountain lion?
Come 24 September 2021, you’ll be able to find out.
That’s when The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), adidasRuntastic and partners will launch the third edition of the Run Wild campaign.
Report Shows 75% of retrieved items were plastic
Top items include cigarette butts, food wrappers and beverage bottles
Washington, D.C. 15 September 2021 - Mayors from along the Mississippi River gathered virtually this week as part of the Mississippi River Cities & Towns Initiative (MRCTI) Annual Meeting.
For people across the developing world, there is often no escape from water pollution. Tens of millions live alongside rivers choked with sewage, lakes filled with farm run-off and canals brimming with industrial toxins.
Since the Green Revolution of the 1950s, agricultural innovations, like synthetic fertilizers, chemical pesticides and high-yield cereal crops, have created an abundance of low-cost food. That has helped to feed a fast-growing world and, in many places, usher in an era of economic prosperity.
One of the most terrifying things about the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic was the realization that the air we breathe could also make us sick.
And yet, for millions of people around the world, breathing potentially deadly air is a daily reality because of noxious pollution caused by everything from factories, to cars, to cooking fires.
Nairobi, 7 September 2021 – The UN Environment Programme (UNEP), in collaboration with IQAir, a Swiss air quality technology company, has developed the first real-time air pollution exposure calculator, which builds on the world’s largest air quality data platform,
Nairobi, 7 September 2021 – The world today marked the second International Day of Clean Air for blue skies under the theme Healthy Air, Healthy Planet, which highlights the link between air quality and planetary and human health.
Nairobi, 7 September 2021 – A global review of policies and programmes to improve air quality shows that over the past five years more countries have adopted policies on all major polluting sectors. Yet large gaps in implementation, financing, capacity, and monitoring mean that air pollution levels remain high.
This year, Bogotá, the capital of Colombia, will begin deploying the first of 1,485 electric buses to replace the diesel vehicles that now dominate its public transit system. The move is expected to prevent the release of 16,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide, or its equivalents, every year.
Nairobi, 7 September 2021 – Digital billboards around the Kenyan capital today started to live stream Nairobi’s real-time air pollution in an effort to increase air quality awareness among the city’s 4.7 million inhabitants.
Most emissions have fallen in Western, Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe since 2010
Hotspots remain in the Balkans and Central Asia, and air quality levels remain dangerous throughout region, but low-cost solutions are at hand
Geneva, 3 September 2021 – Efforts to tackle air pollution have stepped up in recent years and are bringing dividends in many European countries, but extreme hotspots
Nairobi, 3 September 2021 - WHO, UNDP, UNEP and UNICEF have partnered to create a new compendium of 500 actions aimed at reducing death and diseases driven by environmental risk factors, the first such resource to unite this expertise from across the UN system.
Nairobi, 02 September 2021 – One-third of the world’s countries have no legally-mandated outdoor (ambient) air quality standards. Where such laws exist, standards vary widely and often misalign with World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines. Additionally, at least 31% of countries that do have the power to introduce such ambient air quality standards have yet to adopt them.
On 9 December 1921 at a General Motors laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, chemists poured a teaspoonful of a compound called tetraethyl lead into a spasming motor.
They were hoping to stop what’s known as ‘knock’ - the wild and potentially engine-destroying vibrations that come from burning low-grade petrol.
Official end of use of leaded petrol will prevent more than 1.2 million premature deaths and save USD 2.45 trillion a year
The end of leaded petrol follows a 19-year campaign led by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and partners
UNEP urges countries to work towards zero emissions vehicles to further address air pollution and climate change
Nairobi, 30 August 2021 – When service stations i
The Shurmann family’s expedition, Voice of the Oceans, departed from Balneário Camboriú, Brazil, on 29 August.
The expedition, supported by UNEP, will focus on documenting and finding solutions to the invasion of plastics chocking marine ecosystems.
The family will sail through the Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea and the Southern Pacific Ocean.
Brasília, 29 August 2021- Brazil’s seafaring
Around the world, more than 90 per cent of people breathe in air that the World Health Organization (WHO) considers potentially harmful.
While the source of air pollution varies – some come from vehicle emissions, some from power plants, some from crop burning – the outcome is the same: airborne contaminants are a dire threat to human health.
A recent assessment from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Climate and Clean Air Coalition found that cutting farming-related methane emissions would be key in the battle against climate change.
Colombo/Bangkok, 20 August 2021 – With new research showing the major role that rivers play in bringing plastic pollution to the oceans, countries are looking for ways to tackle the root causes of the problem in their own waterways.
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