United Nations Environment Programme

UNEP

United Nations Environment Programme

Type IGO
Website unenvironment.org
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Year founded 1972
Location Nairobi Kenya Kenya
Budget USD >100M
Functions Advocacy, Fieldwork, Research
Funding sources Governments or multi-govt organizations
Tags environment energy climate water agriculture and food sustainability and sustainable development
See also United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030, UNEP-WCMC
Summary The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable development within the United Nations system, and serves as an authoritative advocate for the global environment.

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UNEP: United Nations Environment Programme · 24 March 2023 English

To build on the outcomes of the UN-Water Groundwater Summit and on the related “Joint UN-Water Message and Call for Action on Groundwater” prepared by the UN-Water Summit Task Force …


UNEP: United Nations Environment Programme · 23 March 2023 English

This is an in-person side event at the UN Headquarters during the UN 2023 Water Conference. The event is organized by the European Union, the Ministry of Environment of Peru, …


UNEP: United Nations Environment Programme · 23 March 2023 English

UNEP, UNEP CCS, UN Women and Zero Waste in the Caribbean: New ways, new Waves are organizing the webinar Gender perspective and experience on climate change and waste in the …


UNEP: United Nations Environment Programme · 23 March 2023

H.E. Mrs Katarina Žuffa Leligdonová, Vice Chair, Ambassador of Slovakia to the Republic of Kenya and Permanent Representative to the UN Environment Programme


UNEP: United Nations Environment Programme · 22 March 2023 English

Billions of people worldwide still live without safely managed drinking water and sanitation, even though access to both services has long been defined as a human right. Many water sources …


UNEP: United Nations Environment Programme · 22 March 2023 English

Billions of people worldwide still live without safely managed drinking water and sanitation, even though access to both services has long been defined as a human right. Water and poverty …


UNEP: United Nations Environment Programme · 21 March 2023 English

Humanity has the money and technology it needs to slash its greenhouse gas emissions but must act now to avert a full-blown climate catastrophe, warns a new report from the …



UNEP: United Nations Environment Programme · 21 March 2023 English

As part of phase 2 of the Recipe of Change (ROC) campaign and following the appointment of Chef Leyla Fathallah as UNEP Advocate on Food Waste in West Asia region, …


UNEP: United Nations Environment Programme · 21 March 2023 English

The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has appointed renowned Lebanese Chef Leyla Fathallah as its new advocate on food waste in the West Asia region, in an event hosted by Hilton …


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