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Thi Qar, Iraq, 18 February 2026 – The International Organization for Migration (IOM), the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and Iraqi national authorities today officially handed over a constructed wetland project addressing pollution and drought in Thi Qar, Iraq’s heat-stressed southern region. The project benefits 30,000 local residents through effective wastewater treatment and provides a sustainable nature-ba

Washington D.C., 17 December, 2025 - The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has announced USD 52.8 million for four new UN Environment Programme (UNEP)–led projects during its 70th Council meeting.

• The region is home to some of the world’s fastest-melting glaciers, crucial to the water cycle
• Between 2000 and 2020, glaciers were decimated by 77% in Azerbaijan and 24% in Georgia
• Greater monitoring, data-sharing and climate adaptation needed

Geneva, 11 December 2025 – Glaciers in the South Caucasus are melting faster than in almost any other mountain region on Earth, posing

• Adaptation finance needs of developing countries estimated at over US$310 billion per year by 2035
• Glasgow Climate Pact goal of doubling international public adaptation finance to approximately US$40 billion by 2025 will not be met on current trends
• Report highlights progress with adaptation planning and implementation, but challenges remain

Nairobi, 29 October 2025 – 

Washington D.C., 16 October 2025 - The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF), together with the Development Bank of Latin America (CAF) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB), have officially launched the

Antananarivo, 15 July 2025 – Madagascar has officially launched a landmark initiative aimed at enhancing climate resilience by restoring critical coastal ecosystems and improving livelihoods across vulnerable regions.

Bonn, 13 June 2025 – Brazil and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) today launched a new initiative to address extreme heat through sustainable cooling - Beat the Heat in Cities/Mutirão contra o Calor Extremo - while Italy pledged EUR 2 million in new funding for the Global Cooling Pledge, supporting action on a major contributor to

• The Climate Technology Centre and Network, hosted by UNEP and headquartered in Copenhagen, receives a 4th round of funding from the Danish Government.

Copenhagen, 13 December 2024 – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark today announced the commitment of DKK 30 million (USD 4.3 million) to support the United Nations Climate Technology Cent

07 September, Abidjan - African Environment Ministers meeting in Abidjan have called for the establishment of a legally binding protocol on drought management under the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), with a special focus on Africa.

Nairobi, 23 July 2024– As record temperatures and unprecedented impacts of climate change continue to affect billions of people across the planet, the United Nations and partners have announced a series of regional meetings aimed at increasing ambition in the next round of climate pledges under the Paris Agreement.  

Songdo, 18 July 2024 – The Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board has today approved a significant new project in Jordan to increase adaptation efforts, supported by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).  

• Finance needs of developing countries now 10-18 times as big as international public finance flows
• Growing gap results from rising adaptation needs and faltering adaptation finance
• Failure to enhance adaptation has huge implications for losses and damages

Nairobi, 2 November 2023 – Progress on climate adaptation is slowing on all fronts when it should be accelerating to cat

Tbilisi, 25 October 2023 – The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Green Climate Fund (GCF) today announced a USD 19 million project aiming to build climate resilience in the United Republic of Tanzania, part of a landmark collaboration with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.

• More than eight out of ten parties to UNFCCC have adaptation planning instruments in place
• Estimated adaptation costs are five to ten times greater than international adaptation finance flows to developing countries
• Unprecedented political will and long-term investments in adaptation are urgently needed

Nairobi, 3 November 2022 – As climate impacts intensify across the globe, na