Newsletters and links to news sources issued by UNEP

UNEP and its various offices, the Secretariats it hosts, and programmes and initiatives it is involved in have newsletters which are periodically sent out. Below is a non-exhaustive overview redirecting readers to some of these newsletters or relevant press centres for related news. 

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• Africa Regional Office
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• North America Regional Office
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UNEP Brussels Office has a quarterly newsletter called UNEP Connect. Register for UNEP Connect here.

Secretariats

UNEP hosts several environmental conventions, secretariats and inter-agency coordinating bodies. Below are some examples of the newsletters of such conventions, secretaries and coordinating bodies according to their field of expertise: 

Climate Change

• Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN) has newsletters, subscribe through mail
• Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) has a newsletter, subscribe here.
• Ozone Secretariat no longer has a newsletter, but has a press centre

Ecosystem Management

• Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) has a press centre, CITES no longer produce a newsletter but the newsletter archive can be found here
• Convention of Migratory Species (CMS) E-Newsletters can be found here
• Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystems Services (IPBES) has newsletters, subscribe 
• Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has various publications to be found here
• The Nairobi Convention Secretariat also has regular News Round-ups - see here.

Chemicals and waste

• Basel, Rotterdam & Stockholm Conventions (on waste, chemicals and persistent organic pollutants) have one collective (synergy) newsletter here, latest one can be found here
• Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICAM) has no new newsletters, however there is a press centre
• Minamata Convention (on mercury) news can be found here

Sustainable Consumption and Production

• UN Division for Sustainable Development has a database of old newsletters found here

Science Division

Foresight Briefs

Foresight Briefs highlight a hotspot of environmental change, feature an emerging science topic, or discuss a contemporary environmental issue. They provide a systematic way of examining possible future outcome of emerging environmental issues that can also inform decision making today. UNEP's Foresight Briefs aim to present emerging issues, systemic insights and possible policy solutions on a wide range of topics related to our environment in a short readable document. https://wesr.unep.org/foresight/briefs 

GEO-6 Newsletters 

The GEO-6 newsletters that document the process, activities and events of the sixth edition of the Global Environment Outlook. Link to GEO Matters: https://www.unep.org/resources/newsletter/geo-6-newsletters 

Other

• ACP MEAs (project to assist African, Caribbean and Pacific countries to comply and implement multilateral environmental agreements) Newsletter of 2016 can be found here   Find the latest Digestand Newsletter from ACP MEAs 3 here 'The ACP MEAs 3 Digest provides a collation of key information on issues related to Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs), environmental governance, sustainable development and South-South Cooperation to effectively reach out to our partners and stakeholders who are intimately working with us to implement the European Union funded project “Enforcing environmental treaties’ implementation in African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Countries- ACP-MEAs III'
• UN Environment Post-Conflict and Disaster Management Branch has a News Round-up on Disasters and Conflicts 2016, to be found here 
• UNDP-UNEP Poverty-Environment Initiative Newsletter shows UNDP's and UN Environment's cooperation in 2016 here 
• Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE) news can be accessed here
• UN-REDD The REDD+ Resource is a bi-monthly, multi-lingual news and information resource provides REDD+ practitioners with access to the tools needed to develop and share REDD+ capacities.  Subscribe here. Find the archive here
• PEDRR is the clearinghouse for knowledge, training, advocacy and practice on Ecosystem-based Disaster Risk Reduction (Eco-DRR). Subscribe to the weekly Eco-DRR newsletter or find them on Facebook, Twitter or the Eco-DRR-4-NbS experts network on LinkedIn.
• UNEP Environmental Governance newsletter - find the latest here
• UNEP Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) Newsletters for members - subscribe here.