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 ...

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

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

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

Experts say limiting the release of nitrous oxide is crucial for keeping warming below the critical 1.5°C threshold of the ...

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 ...

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 ...