Each year, an estimated 8 million tonnes of plastic end up in the ocean. Did you know that personal care products are a major source of microplastics? They get washed away into the oceans through our ...

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This year's World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD) campaign will highlight the need for a healthy coexistence between humans and birds. It will focus on creating and adapting environments that support ...

Under the theme “Make visible the invisible: sound management of chemicals and wastes,” the 2025 Meetings of the Conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions (2025 BRS ...

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the world’s leading authority on the environment, working with all of ...

The Global ESCO Network’s Second International ESCO Symposium brings together ESCOs, energy efficiency professionals, ...

A UNEP project is supporting conservation and awareness of biodiversity in Istanbul, Turkey, by highlighting its position on ...

UNEP engages with the nine Major Groups as defined in the Agenda 21, which recognizes in its Chapter 23 the important role of civil society in every area in which human impacts on the environment and ...

Indonesia will officially launch the “Growing Resilience through Emissions Reductions, Community Empowerment and Ecosystem Restoration for a Nurturing Future” (GREEN for Riau) initiative, a ...

Vienna, 7 May 2025 – Hosted by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in its Austrian premises, the Global Environment Facility (GEF)’s third Agencies Communications Retreat ...