UNEP highlights the environmental impact of overconsumption in the fashion and textile sector as shoppers gear up to spend a ...

In Madagascar, one of the world’s largest biodiversity hotspots, local communities set up eco-villages that create ...

Opening address of UNEP Executive Director, at the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-5) in ...

The fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on ...

COP29 has delivered a hard-fought deal. This is at a time when science tells us that without action, climate impacts will ...

Karina Khatic has seen firsthand the misuse of pharmaceuticals and the antimicrobial resistance (AMR) they can cause.

At a somewhat fractious UN Climate Conference (COP29) dominated by finance, the final agreement in Baku, Azerbaijan saw ...

My thanks to the COP29 Presidency for launching the Baku Dialogue on Water for Climate Action to strengthen the water dimension within the global climate agenda. Crops and livestock are wasting away ...

Water is the lifeblood of our planet and freshwater ecosystems play a key role in sopping up planet-warming carbon dioxide emissions and making our societies resilient to climate disasters. But the ...

Baku, 21 November 2024 – 177 out of 193 UN Member States have peatlands – critical carbon sinks and biodiversity hotspots, yet agriculture, urbanization, deforestation, and industrial activities put ...

Climate change. Nature, biodiversity and land loss. Pollution and waste. These are not standalone crises. They are one triple planetary crisis. A crisis that is undermining progress on human health, ...