MEDIA ADVISORY: UN Food Systems Summit Commitments Registry
MEDIA ADVISORY: UN Food Systems Summit Commitments Registry [...]
UN adopts landmark framework to integrate natural capital in economic reporting
Countries agree to go beyond GDP with new framework that accounts for nature’s contribution to economy
One Planet Summit
MEDIA ADVISORY ONE PLANET SUMMIT Organized by France, in [...]
Historic UN Summit on Biodiversity sets stage for a global movement toward a green recovery from COVID-19
New York, 30 September—Recognizing that the continued deterioration and degradation of the world’s natural ecosystems were having major impacts on the lives and livelihoods of people everywhere, world leaders called for increased resolve to protect biodiversity at the UN today.
Leading experts chosen to drive five priority areas for UN Food Systems Summit
September 16, 2020, New York – Today the United [...]
#MakeItRight: A campaign by UN Lebanon and TBWA/Raad on World Environment Day
Every year the world celebrates World Environment Day on 5 June, a day dedicated to focusing efforts of the governments, businesses and citizens on pressing environmental issues.
UN Report: Nature’s Dangerous Decline ‘Unprecedented’; Species Extinction Rates ‘Accelerating’
A landmark new report from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) warns that nature is declining globally at rates unprecedented in human history – and the rate of species extinctions is accelerating, with grave impacts on people around the world now likely.
International Day of Forests 2019: Forests and Education
Learning to understand our forests and providing children with a foundation to better understand their importance is a critical step to safeguarding natural resources for future generations.
Media Advisory | UN Biodiversity Conference, 17-29 November 2018
6 November – In collaboration with the Government of [...]
UNDP Goodwill Ambassador Michelle Yeoh follows the sustainable fashion trail
UNDP Goodwill Ambassador Michelle Yeoh sets out to discover [...]
Bangladesh: World Heritage Site threatened by ‘heedless industrialisation’ – UN expert
Image: FAO/Mondal Falgoonee Kumar|Researchers travelling on a small canal during [...]
Dare to Return
By Prisana Kongwong, Khaosod, Thailand When asked why he resigned [...]
Adopt an Olive Tree
By Patricia Peiró, El País, Spain There are few things [...]
UNDP announces The Lion’s Share fund to tackle crisis in wildlife conservation and animal welfare
On 21 June, 2018, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), [...]
Consumers, private sector critical in fighting droughts and land degradation, says UN
17 June 2018, Quito, Ecuador--More than 3.2 billion people, or [...]
Rich variety of life on earth essential says Guterres, marking biodiversity day
The welfare and prosperity of people now and in the [...]
Kristine Tompkins named UN Environment Patron of Protected Areas
American environmentalist and CEO of Tompkins Conservation, Kristine McDivitt Tompkins, [...]