In cities, a circular economy model implies a systemic shift. Services, such as water, waste or energy, are provided making efficient use of natural resources as primary materials and optimizing their ...

In response to the rapid rise in the scale, intensity, frequency and impacts of extreme heat, UN Secretary-General António Guterres recently called for an urgent and concerted effort to enhance ...

Kagimu is one of a growing number of Ugandans who in recent months have switched to electric cooking technologies. The ...

The Global Tailings Management Institute (GTMI), an independent, multi-stakeholder governed organisation dedicated to ...

A global treaty to end plastic pollution is within reach, but action on chemicals, production and financing is critical.

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the International Energy Agency (IEA), with the support of the Italian ...

Inger Andersen delivers a welcome speech at the Geneva Environment Network High-Level 25th Anniversary Celebration.

In Viet Nam, a seed capital assistance facility helps build a wind farm, which has reduced CO2 emissions and created jobs.

Initiated in 2005, the UNEP Global Mercury Partnership aims to protect human health and the environment from the releases of mercury to air, water and land. With close to 260 partners from governments ...

The following table lists all the resolutions, decisions and declarations adopted since 1973 from the sessions of the Governing Council (GC) and of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA). The ...

This sparked renewed calls for countries to rein in emissions of greenhouse gases, which superheat the planet and drive the climate crisis. Amid those pleas, experts urged nations not to forget about ...

The Protocol is the most significant agreement of its kind. It includes regional effluent limitations for domestic wastewater (sewage) and requires the development of plans to address agricultural non ...