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’, in partnership with the Republic of Sport Foundation and with…

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 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…

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”.  

The initiative for a Global Pact for the Environment aims to provide an overarching framework to international environmental law aimed at further solidifying, consolidating as well as advancing international environmental law considering pressing…

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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The Katowice Climate Change Conference will include the 24th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 24) to the UNFCCC, along with meetings of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP), the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI), and the Conference of the Parties…

The fourth meeting of the Executive Board of the Special Programme to support institutional strengthening at the national level for implementation of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions, the Minamata convention and the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM) is tentatively scheduled to take place on 3-7 December 2018, in Panama City, Panama.

The main…

The UN climate summits, called the UNFCCC COP (Conference of the Parties) are global conferences, in the course of which action for climate policy is negotiated. Poland hosted them twice before - in 2008, in Poznań and in 2013, in Warsaw. In December 2018, the climate summit will take place in Katowice.

This year's summit will include the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United…