We promote sustainable, low-emission transport and work to reduce the sector’s contribution to air pollution and climate change.

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015 to end poverty, reduce inequality and build more peaceful, prosperous societies by 2030. The ...

The Indus River and its tributaries have nurtured human civilization on the Indian sub-continent since the Bronze Age. Several millennia later, modern-day Pakistan still depends heavily on the river ...

Azima Magonde Giston is walking through his cacao plantation, which sits on the fringes of a lush rainforest in the northern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). He scans the trees for ...

Barranquilla, Colombia lies on the coast of the Caribbean Sea, surrounded by wetlands and tropical forests. While the location is idyllic, it is also perilous: the city of 1.3 million is dangerously ...

The Cities Unit is located in the Climate Change Division. It supports cities, regions and countries in addressing the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution, by ...

Article 16 of the Stockholm Convention requires the Conference of the Parties to evaluate the effectiveness of the Convention, including a Global Monitoring Plan (GMP) to collect comparable and ...

Chemicals and Waste Issues of Concern: A Summary Analysis of Stakeholders’ Views on Priorities for Further Work and Potential Further International Action In 2020, UNEP published an Assessment Report ...

In 1992, 150 nations signed the Convention on Biological Diversity, a global agreement to support sustainable development by ...

Colombian cities are transforming urban areas with nature to lessen the fallout from climate change and save biodiversity.

Indonesia’s Ministry of Environment and Forestry (MoEF) and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) signed a Memorandum of ...