UNEP Executive Director, Inger Andersen emphasizes the urgent need for multilateral action to tackle climate change, ...

We speak with UNEP transport expert Rob De Jong about what’s behind the rapid shift to electric vehicles in low-and ...

The Champions of the Earth award honours individuals and organizations whose actions have a transformative impact on the ...

In a move to strengthen global environmental cooperation in increasingly challenging geopolitical circumstances, European ...

Every day, the equivalent of 2,000 garbage trucks full of plastic are dumped into the world's oceans, rivers, and lakes. Plastic pollution is a global problem. Every year 19-23 million tonnes of ...

The Paris Agreement in 2015 introduced the concept of a Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA), a parallel to the global mitigation goal aimed at limiting global temperature rise to 1.5°C. Unlike mitigation, ...

Nairobi, 27 March 2025 – Ahead of the International Day of Zero Waste 2025, events in Nairobi, New York and across the world have shone a spotlight on waste in the fashion and textiles industry, ...

Your Excellency Paulina Hennig-Kloska, Minister of Environment of Poland, Your Excellency Jessika Roswall, European Commissioner for Environment, Water Resilience and a Competitive Circular Economy, ...

When designer Batoul Al-Rashdan tells people she makes clothes out of ground olives and onion peels, some look at her with raised eyebrows. “It’s definitely a conversation starter,” says the founder ...

Registration is required to participate. Registration closed on 22 March. This flagship event is part of the International Day of Zero Waste 2025 celebrations. International Day of Zero Waste, ...

Bishkek, 26 March 2025 – Climate change has caused temperatures in the Kyrgyz Republic to rise at twice the global average, exacerbating water stress and the risk of natural disasters, according to a ...