Digital hub designed to protect coral reefs shortlisted for global award
A new digital platform to help dive professionals protect fragile coral reefs has been shortlisted as a finalist in the 2020 Con X Tech Prize, an award that provides seed funding to…
Global Trade in Used Vehicles Report
Millions of used cars, vans and minibuses exported from Europe, the USA and Japan to low- and middle-income countries are hindering efforts to combat climate change. They are contributing to…
IPBES Workshop Report on Biodiversity and Pandemics
The report by The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) addresses the links between the degradation of nature and increasing pandemic risks, quantifying the economic costs of pandemics as…
Used vehicles get a second life in Africa – but at what cost?
John Mwangi’s 22-year-old car is his lifeline. His run-down Toyota saloon not only ferries him around the streets of the traffic-congested Kenyan capital, Nairobi, but is also his main source…
16th UNEP FI Global Roundtable: Plenary sessions
The UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) 16th Global Roundtable, held virtually for the first time ever from 13-14 October 2020, attracts over 2500 participants. Here are the plenary sessions…
Las metas y valores que impulsan el negocio de Hector Joseph Dager Gaspard
Hector Joseph Dager Gaspard define el poder de la cooperación para generar valor integral y soluciones innovadoras para cada uno de sus clientes y las zonas geográficas en donde está operando.…
State of the Environment and Development in the Mediterranean
Despite representing less than 1% of the world’s ocean surface, the Mediterranean Sea is home to up to 18% of the planet’s marine species. The decline of Posidonia Oceanica (an…
Global trade in used vehicles report
Millions of used cars, vans and minibuses exported from Europe, the USA and Japan to low- and middle-income countries are hindering efforts to combat climate change. They are contributing to…
Creencias religiosas se asociarían con suicidios en pueblos indígenas
Espíritus que toman posesión de los cuerpos, temor a afrontar castigos, asuntos de linaje o convicción de que llegó la hora de morir, son algunas de las razones por las…
Celebrating African youth turning the tide on plastic pollution
Nairobi, 16 October 2020 – More than 400 young Africans were today honoured for their leadership in addressing plastic pollution in their communities as part of the Tide Turners Plastic Challenge.…
Discrimination in the air
Nine out of 10 people globally breathe polluted air, causing about 7 million premature deaths every year. On 7 September 2020, the United Nations observed the first International Day of Clean Air…
Iraq’s environmental sustainability prioritized in new UNEP/UNDP agreement
Manama, Baghdad, 22 October 2020 – The UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Regional Office for West Asia based in Manama, Bahrain, and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in Iraq have joined forces today,…
Nature meets policy in Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso country is implementing several multilateral environmental agreements – including the National Economic and Social Development Plan (2016-2020), which envisages “strong, sustainable and inclusive economic growth.” But transformational change is no…
Thirty of the world’s largest investors set unprecedented 5-year portfolio decarbonization targets
Geneva, 13 October 2020 – Thirty of the world’s largest investors with $5 trillion assets under management have collectively agreed on concrete portfolio decarbonization targets that follow the Intergovernmental Panel on…
Don’t ignore economic lessons of the Great Recession: new UNEP report
“The world today finds itself in the worst financial and economic crisis in generations. The crisis has triggered an unprecedented policy response: interest rates have been dramatically reduced, in some…
New UNEP report lights the way for financial institutions to shift to more sustainable circular economies
New UNEP report highlights the critical role of financial institutions in advancing the growth of circularity by investing in businesses that take a more sustainable approach to production and consumption…
Investing in sustainability: Greening finance
The COVID-19 pandemic is part of the three planetary crises: the climate crisis, the biodiversity and nature crisis, and the pollution and waste crisis – which are destroying the natural…
Global trade in used vehicles report
Millions of used cars, vans and minibuses exported from Europe, the USA and Japan to low- and middle-income countries are hindering efforts to combat climate change. They are contributing to…
Despite representing less than 1% of the world’s ocean surface, the Mediterranean Sea is home to up to 18% of the planet’s marine species. The decline of Posidonia Oceanica (an endemic seagrass species known as the “lungs of the Mediterranean”), overfishing, non-indigenous species are among the symptoms of environmental degradation. Marine and coastal ecosystems are reeling under pressure from the unsustainable pursuit of economic growth. This pressure is illustrated by the challenges of marine litter and pollution and further compounded by the rising impacts of climate change. A United Nations Environment Programme Mediterranean Action Plan (UNEP/MAP) report produced by Plan Bleu, a UNEP/MAP Regional Activity Centre, provides the most comprehensive assessment of the state of the environment and development in the region and includes a set of key messages that can inform an adequate policy response. The report was prepared under the Barcelona Convention, the Contracting Parties of which are 21 Mediterranean countries and the European Union.
Despite representing less than 1% of the world’s ocean surface, the Mediterranean Sea is home to up to 18% of the planet’s marine species. The decline of Posidonia Oceanica (an…
Financing Circularity: Demystifying Finance for the Circular Economy
Financial institutions will be crucial to make the shift to circularity, ensuring the consumption and production patterns of the businesses they invest in making more efficient use of resources and…