
UNEP@50: A golden thread of environmental action
President Jomo Kenyatta, who gave a UNEP a home at the first United Nations headquarters in the global south – where we stand today.

President Jomo Kenyatta, who gave a UNEP a home at the first United Nations headquarters in the global south – where we stand today.

Today, we are using the same approach that worked with ozone on the triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, and pollution and waste: science to policy to action, bolstered by international multilateralism.

The climate crisis is borderless, but it affects the people with the smallest carbon footprint the most.

Alerting that over one billion people aged 12 to 35, risking losing their hearing due to prolonged and excessive exposure to loud music and other high volume recreational noise, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued new international safety advice on Wednesday to tackle the rising threat of hearing loss.

In the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, global rates of anxiety and depression increased by a massive 25 per cent, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday.

Everyone must commit to preserving the Earth’s “invaluable and irreplaceable wildlife,” the UN chief said on Wednesday in his message for World Wildlife Day.

On day seven of the Ukraine crisis, UN-led efforts to ramp up support to the country’s embattled health workers have continued.

On March 2 2022, Heads of State, Ministers of environment and other representatives from 175 nations endorsed a historic resolution at the UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi to End Plastic Pollution and forge an international legally binding agreement by 2024.

On 3 March, World Wildlife Day (WWD) will be celebrated under the theme “Recovering key species for ecosystem restoration”.

Your Excellency Félix Moloua, Prime Minister, Head of Government of the Central African Republic