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The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the world’s leading authority on the environment, working with all of society across 193 countries to protect and restore human and planetary health. But action at scale depends on funding, and UNEP relies on voluntary contributions for more than 95 per cent of its work. This includes contributions to UNEP’s core fund, the Environment Fund; to the three UNEP Planetary Funds for climate, nature and pollution; and earmarked contributions that provide direct support to specific projects. 

Flexible and sustained funding ensures UNEP can keep advancing critical priorities, and every contribution helps accelerate progress toward a cleaner, safer and more sustainable future for all. See how to partner with UNEP to invest in people and planet, and read below for regular funding updates.

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08 May 2025 16:34

Thank you to France for being a top funding partner of UNEP

08 May 2025 14:21

Supplementary grant from Japan goes toward environmental stewardship, focused on Ukraine

Delegation at the Japan Supplementary Budget 2024/2025 kick-off meeting in Nairobi
Credit: Ahmed Nayim Yussuf / UNEP

 

Japan, which is among UNEP's 15 leading funding partners, recently announced a supplementary grant of US$4 million in addition to its full-share contributions to UNEP's core fund, the Environment Fund. This supplementary grant  includes funding for the new “Enhancing capacity of hazardous waste management” initiative in Ukraine, which focuses on minimizing environmental and public health risks of war debris containing asbestos. 

The supplementary funding also aims to help drive envrionmental stewardship and sustainable development worldwide and will support UNEP’s efforts on tackling the pollution crisis, in cooperation with Fiji, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, South Sudan and Thailand.  

Read more here, or contact Pier Carlo Sandei, piercarlo.sandei@un.org, for more information.

06 May 2025 15:30

Restoration Factory programme on track to meet 2025 goals

A man in a beekeeping suit walks in a field
Credit: AFP / Tony Karumba 

 

With generous support from Belgium, Finland, and Norway to the UNEP Climate Fund, the Restoration Factory programme is on track to have trained more than 200 green entrepreneurs by the end of 2025, boosting nature-positive businesses that help restore the planet. 

The Restoration Factory is an incubation programme that helps entrepreneurs develop climate-resilient businesses that support local communities and help restore and preserve landscapes.