UNEP, Italy expand effort to harness digitalization for environmental and humanitarian gains

Dec 30, 2024 · Here’s a closer look at some of the most memorable environmental moments of the last 12 months, shaped by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) UNEP hosts that underpin the global environmental movement.

Sep 21, 2024 · This week, UNEP released an issue note that explores AI’s environmental footprint and considers how the technology can be rolled out sustainably. It follows a major UNEP report, Navigating New Horizons , which also examined AI’s promise and perils.

We are developing a thriving Student Ambassadors programme, empowering students to take action for nature on their campuses towards Nature Positive and share experiences and resources with other students across the world. 857 students from 59 countries have signed up to take action on their campuses. We invite students from universities, colleges and higher …

As defined at the 5th United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA 5.2), nature-based solutions (NbS) are “actions aimed at protecting, conserving, restoring, and sustainably managing natural or modified terrestrial, freshwater, coastal, and marine ecosystems, which address social, economic and environmental challenges effectively and adaptively ...

The WESR is the new UNEP data, information and knowledge platform providing users access to validated content to support environmental decision… read more

Human-caused methane emissions are responsible for roughly a third of the planet’s current warming. Reducing these emissions is the fastest, most cost-effective way to slow global warming in the near-term – and is essential to avert worsening climate damages. Human-caused methane emissions are responsible for roughly a third of the planet’s current warming.

As climate impacts intensify and hit the world’s poorest, The Adaptation Gap Report 2024: Come hell and high water finds that nations must dramatically increase climate adaptation efforts, starting with a commitment to act on finance. As climate impacts intensify and hit the world’s poorest, The Adaptation Gap Report 2024: Come hell and high water finds that nations must …

To deliver on this potential, sufficiently strong NDCs would need to be backed urgently by a whole-of-government approach, measures that maximize socioeconomic and environmental co-benefits, enhanced international collaboration that includes reform of the global financial architecture, strong private sector action and a minimum six-fold ...

This specially designed environmental policy approach shifts the burden of managing certain end-of-life products from municipalities and taxpayers to the producers who place those products in the market. Why is it important?