Environment & green economy

A healthy environment and equitable access to ecosystem goods and services are crucial for sustainable development, but they are increasingly threatened. To improve lives around the globe for the long term, we must change our relationship with the environment: growth and sustainability can go hand in hand if this imperative is met at all levels. An inclusive green economy offers a possible pathway.

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Freshwater Crisis Averted by Joint UN-Maldives Effort

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) posted Information | 26 February 2016

Thoddoo Island, Maldives, 25 February 2016 - A new Integrated Water Supply System inaugurated Wednesday by the President of Maldives, Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayyoom, will harness rainwater harvesting and seawater desalination to protect Thoddoo Island's precious freshwater resources from...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
UN World Wildlife Day 2016

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) posted Information | 26 February 2016

The UN World Wildlife Day (WWD) celebrated every year on 3 March, is the international celebration of the many beautiful and varied forms of this planet’s wild fauna and flora, as well as an occasion to raise awareness of the multitude of benefits that conservation provides to people. The theme of...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Op-Ed: Year of Green Finance Nurturing Economy – by Achim Steiner, UNEP Executive Director

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) posted Information | 26 February 2016

“Finance ministers and central bank governors from G20 countries will meet in Shanghai under the leadership of the Chinese presidency. With so many issues on the table for the G20 to deliberate this year, it is telling that the Chinese presidency has chosen to prioritize green finance. This is a...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Strengthened Integration Needed for Effective Action on Air Pollution, Sustainable Consumption, Green Economy

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) posted Information | 26 February 2016

Gearing up for the 2nd UN Environment Assembly, countries define an integrated approach to implementing environmental dimension of Sustainable Development Goals. Nairobi, 24 February 2016 - Governments and regional organizations met at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Headquarters...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
UNEP leads first ever nationwide diagnosis of contaminated soil in Republic of Serbia

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) posted Information | 25 February 2016

Belgrade, Republic of Serbia – 25 February 2016: The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) today launched the first ever nationwide efforts to identify and map contaminated soil sites for remediation in the Republic of Serbia. The project takes place thanks to the support of the Italian...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Financing change: How to mobilize private sector financing for sustainable infrastructure

Enrique Rebolledo posted Information | 25 February 2016

In 2015, an international architecture for sustainable development began to take shape. Building on the United Nations’ Financing for Development Agenda in Addis Ababa and then the formal adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals in September, the year culminated in the Conference of Parties (...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Financing change How to mobilize private-sector financing for sustainable-infrastructure

Enrique Rebolledo uploaded a new Document | 25 February 2016

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
An Integrated Environmental Approach to the SDGs

Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 25 February 2016

The Sustainable Development Goals, adopted unanimously by UN member states in September 2015, have given the international community and national governments a number of targets and principles – chief among them, to advance an “integrated approach”. But what does this mean in terms of projects,...

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Governments Set Stage for Action on Environmental Aspects of Humanitarian Crises and Risks to Human Health

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) posted Information | 19 February 2016

Nairobi, 19 February 2016 - Governments and other key actors today set the stage for key decisions on the implementation of the environmental dimension of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including addressing the environmental aspects of global humanitarian crises and human health risks...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
From Asthma to Zika: UNEP tackles links between health and environment

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) posted Information | 18 February 2016

Skin cancer. Lung cancer. Asthma. Lead poisoning. Mercury poisoning. Malaria. Ebola. Zika. The list of health conditions that can be linked to environmental pollution and degradation is long and growing. Speaking to a packed room of international delegates on Wednesday morning at UNEP’s Committee...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development

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