For Meshach Alford, a farmer from the town of Saint Paul’s in the Caribbean island of Saint Kitts, the realities of climate change are all too real. “I have planted crops and there has been no water ...

In the unusually hot summer of 2016, a bacterium that causes anthrax killed more than 2,500 reindeer in Siberia’s remote Yamal Peninsula, according to one study. Normally locked deep in a layer of ...

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

After two years of talks, we're close to securing a treaty to tackle plastic pollution. There is still work to be done on ...

In Viet Nam, a seed capital assistance facility helps build a wind farm, which has reduced CO2 emissions and created jobs.

Kagimu is one of a growing number of Ugandans who in recent months have switched to electric cooking technologies. The ...

Up to 485,000 tonnes of the greenhouse gas seeped from the Nord Stream pipeline network following a series of explosions in ...

The Global Tailings Management Institute (GTMI), an independent, multi-stakeholder governed organisation dedicated to ...

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 ...

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

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 ...