Within the next 50 years, some of today’s youth will become the community leaders, policy makers and decision makers that will determine our planet’s future.
Kenya’s Nzambi Matee beams brightly, thrusting a brick forth to coincide with the click of the camera.
Ending the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic and building resilience against the next outbreak will be critical to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed said in remarks to a UN conference that opened in Kigali, Rwanda on Thursday.
The World Health Organization (WHO), for the first time, included an oral antiviral drug in its COVID-19 treatment guidance.
For 50 years, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has offered the world a way forward “based on a vision for a better, healthier Earth built on the pillars of international cooperation,” Secretary-General António Guterres told a landmark special session on Thursday, commemorating the agency’s golden anniversary.
A series of regional conventions and policies are playing an essential role in monitoring climate change and preparing for extreme weather events, preventing oil spills, reducing plastic and other waste, saving coral reefs, and providing overall ocean protection and restoration of marine ecosystems.
On a chilly December day in 1972, the United Nations General Assembly passed what is formally known as UN-Resolution 2997.
A series of framed certificates and mementoes hang on the back wall of Donald Kaniaru’s home office, celebrating careers with both the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Government of Kenya.
If we act on the triple planetary crisis, we protect human health and reduce the pressure on healthcare systems.
The German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV), the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), and the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (SCBD) today jointly announced the establishment of a Multi-Partner Trust Fund (MPTF) on Nature for Health.