The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) released its 2025 Annual Report today, highlighting progress made last year on key ...

The 2025 Annual Report explores UNEP’s results and impacts across climate action, nature and land action, pollution action and more. In a time when multilateralism is more important than ever, it ...

The Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution ...

Forecasting systems, among other technologies, are helping communities cope with increasingly extreme weather, from wildfires ...

Farmers are transforming Thailand’s rice fields through sustainable practices that are lowering costs, improving yields and ...

For farmers like Jvaridze, Ivanide and Chilingarashvili, the restoration of land and tradition now go hand-in-hand and is rooted in their daily life. Here, renewal is not only about getting more out ...

In Iraq’s marshlands, a constructed wetland pilot uses reeds to treat wastewater -restoring ecosystems, improving water ...

The third part of the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment (INC ...

The first session of the Plenary of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Panel on Chemicals, Waste and Pollution (ISP-CWP P1) will be hosted by the Government of Switzerland, from 2 to 6 February 2026 ...

Initiated in 2005, the UNEP Global Mercury Partnership aims to protect human health and the environment from the releases of mercury to air, water and land. With close to 300 partners from governments ...

The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer is the landmark multilateral environmental agreement that regulates the production and consumption of nearly 100 man-made chemicals ...

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