The ‘Beat Plastic Pollution JA’ competition was kicked off by the United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Caribbean Environment Programme (CEP) and partners on World Environment Day, June 5.

It is a joint United Nations initiative aimed at highlighting the urgent need for action to reduce plastic pollution, which is a major challenge in the Caribbean and globally.

The competition, will run until June 23, sees Jamaican students demonstrating “the urgent need to work across the plastic life cycle and articulate different strategies to reduce and reuse plastic”

UNEP seeks nominations of changemakers working on plastic pollution solutions.

The UN Environment Programme call for nominations for its annual 

For decades, there has been a dearth of data on methane emissions from Africa’s offshore oil and gas sector.

The United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP’s) International Methane Emissions Observatory is changing that with a new study that charts how much methane is spilling from wells off the coast of Angola and Gabon.

SPEECH DELIVERED BY LIGIA NORONHA, ASSISTANT-SECRETARY GENERAL AND HEAD OF NEW YORK OFFICE ON BEHALF OF INGER ANDERSEN

SPEECH DELIVERED BY: Inger Andersen

FOR: International Day on Zero Waste

My thanks to Türkiye for spearheading the first International Day on Zero Waste. The UN Environment Programme and UN Habitat are proud to be facilitating the observance of this day.

Nairobi, 30 March 2023 – In response to the worsening impacts of waste on human health, the economy and the environment, the world today marked the inaugural International Day of Zero Waste, which encourages everyone to prevent and minimize waste and promotes a societal shift towards a circular economy.

The International Day of Zero Waste aims to promote sustainable consumption and production patterns and raise awareness about how zero-waste initiatives contribute to the advancement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

International Day of Zero Waste, observed for the first time on 30 March 2023 and jointly facilitated by UNEP and UN-Habitat, aims to raise awareness of the importance of zero waste and responsible consumption and production practices and urban waste management contributing to achieving sustainable development.

Assessment Report for Select Countries in Respect of the Protocol Concerning Pollution from Land-based Sources and Activities (LBS Protocol)

The LBS Protocol: Difficulties and Challenges in the Countries Participating in the Project GEF CReW

The Regional Activity Centre for Land-based Sources of Marine Pollution (LBS/RAC-Cimab) Protocol was contracted by the Caribbean Regional Coordinating Unit of the United Nations Environment Program (CAR-RCU/UNEP) to carry out the study that gives title to this report in the four Spanish-speaking countries involved in the Project GEF CReW: Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and Panama.