Habitat, and the World Health Organization (WHO) have launched the first-ever Pan African Action Plan for Active Mobility ...

A UNEP-supported initiative will be making roads safer for some of the 1 billion Africans who walk or cycle daily, while also ...

COP29 follows the release of UNEP’s Emissions Gap Report 2024, which warned that without more ambitious cuts to greenhouse gas emissions, the world is on track for a temperature increase of ...

Rising temperatures have caused glaciers in the Caucasus to retreat an average of 600m over the past century, contributing to ...

Hundreds of scientists from around the world are in the midst of drafting a landmark report to help government leaders and ...

Under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, there is growing recognition of the value of fresh water and the ...

The Quadripartite collaboration on One Health - comprising the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), ...

UNEP Deputy Executive Director Elizabeth Mrema highlights that international environmental lawmaking is advancing, with ...

The world needs to triple renewable energy capacity and double energy efficiency by 2030 to meet its climate-change-related goals, finds a United Nations report released today.

From 11 to 22 November, Baku, Azerbaijan, will host the 29th Conference of the Parties (COP29), the global decision-making ...

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has approved a US$ 35 million project to increase climate resilience in Azerbaijan, supported by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).

For Ahumwire Justine, a banana farmer from Shuku, in Uganda’s southwest, a day last October brought home just how vulnerable her plantation was to extreme weather. That day, a devastating rain and ...