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

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

The United Nations has recognized an initiative to restore degraded farmlands in sub-Saharan Africa with a special award.

Barranquilla, Colombia lies on the coast of the Caribbean Sea, surrounded by wetlands and tropical forests. While the ...

Azima Magonde Giston is walking through his cacao plantation, which sits on the fringes of a lush rainforest in the northern ...

In a new video, UNEP explores how one group of chemical compounds is feeding climate change and stoking air pollution.

Job Vacancies, including internship positions, with the UNEP/MAP Coordinating Unit are posted in the United Nations Careers Portal. Users are required to register to the portal in order to view and ...

Organisers: Co-organized by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the United Nations Environment Programme ...

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 ...