Events

The Arctic is one of Earth’s most fragile ecosystems, disproportionally affected by climate change and warming at twice the average rate of the rest of the planet. To garner global attention and support for the rapidly disappearing ice in the Polar regions, UN Environment is organising “The last ice hockey game on the North Pole’.

The event, to be held on the North Pole in April 2019,…

Fourth session of the UN Environment Assembly

Innovative solutions for environmental challenges and sustainable consumption and production

The theme Innovative solutions, covering policies, financing, technologies, partnerships and multistakeholder processes – are key both to solving many environmental challenges, as well as to accelerating sustainable development more generally…

The third session of UN Environment’s Forum of Ministers & Environment Authorities of Asia Pacific, will take place from 23 to 25 January 2019 in Marina Bay Sands Expo & Convention Centre in Singapore. The Forum will focus on UNEA-4 theme ‘Innovative solutions for environmental challenges and sustainable consumption and production’. The Forum is an opportunity for Member States in Asia…

100% recycled plastic dhow to set sail for 500km expedition along the East African coast.

To raise awareness for the more than 12m tonnes of plastic being in dumped in the ocean every year, Kenya’s Flipflopi is embarking on a 500km voyage from Lamu Island along the coast of Kenya before crossing into northern Tanzania, with its final stop in Stone Town, Zanzibar. Along the way, the…

Unlocking capital for sustainability is an annual premiere event organised by Eco-Business in partnership with UN Environment that brings together high-level decision makers in finance, business, government and civic society to discuss and commit to actionable initiatives that mobilise the capital markets for sustainable development projects.

In 2019, this event will be held on 22…

The Negotiation of the Summary for Policy Makers of the sixth Global Environment Outlook, will be held at the headquarters of the United Nations Environment Programme in Gigiri, Nairobi, Kenya from 21 to 24 January 2019.

At this meeting, countries will negotiate and adopt the Summary for Policy Makers as mandated by the first session of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEP/EA.1/Res.4 on…

On 10 May 2018, the UN General Assembly (the Assembly) adopted, resolution 72/277 entitled “Towards a Global Pact for the Environment”.  

According to the resolution’s text, the Assembly decided to establish an ad hoc open‑ended working group to consider a technical and evidence-based report that identifies and assesses possible gaps in international environmental law and environment-…

The UN Environment and Chulalongkorn University (represented by the Center of Excellence on Hazardous Substance Management) are welcoming applications for the forthcoming:

The Asian Circular Economy Leadership Academy is implemented under the SWITCH-Asia Regional Policy Advocacy Component, funded by the European Union.

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UN Environment will present the 2018 Emissions Gap Report with a press conference and global launch event on 27 November 2018, 1600 – 17:30 at the Palais Brongniart in Paris France.

The press conference will be open to registered media and take place at 1600 local time Tuesday, 27 November. Registered media will also be able to access the summary for policy makers and press release…