Events

The Last Game was first scheduled for April 2019. To allow a proper preparation and conduct of the event with the intended strong outcome, and to take full advantage of the partnerships and linkages established, UN Environment had to annul the 2019 event. Instead, together with our polar patron Slava Fetisov we are now looking into moving the event by one year and using the year 2019 for a…

The first Great Lakes Circular Economy Forum will take place in Toronto from 25-26 June 2019. Co-convened by UN Environment North America, the City of Toronto and the Council of the Great Lakes Region, the Forum is an invitation-only, bi-national dialogue on promoting circular economy in the Great Lakes region. 

The Great Lakes region is uniquely positioned for a transition to a…

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-…

Between 2014 and 2018, the Chemicals and Health Branch of the United Nations Environment Programme implemented and executed the project “Development of a Plan for Global Monitoring of Human Exposure to and Environmental Concentrations of Mercury” funded by the Global Environment Facility.

The project aimed at identifying approaches, existing monitoring networks and worldwide capacities…

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…

Close to forty partners of the Partnership for Clean and Vehicles (PCFV) met in Paris, France on 5&6 March 2019 to review Partnership’s progress in promoting cleaner fuels and vehicles in middle and low-income countries. The meeting which was hosted by UN Environment brought together partners from the oil and vehicle industry, non-governmental organizations, academia, and developed and…

The fifth Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Week (HNPW 2019) will be held from 4 to 8 February 2019 at the International Conference Centre (ICC) in Geneva.

In collaboration with the UN Environment/OCHA Joint Unit and UNHCR, UN Environment’s Crisis Management Branch will host an event on Improving humanitarian outcomes by mapping and managing environmental risks.

The event…

During this meeting, the GEO for Youth authors will discuss the second order draft of the GEO for Youth report and address the feedback from the internal review process. The outcome of the meeting will be a complete second order draft of the chapters of the GEO for Youth report. The authors will also discuss the results of a global wide survey, launched in December 2018, which will be the main…

The East Africa Community was the first sub-region in the African continent to transition to low sulphur fuels in January 2015. This transition resulted in the implementation of standards allowing a maximum sulphur content of 50 ppm in diesel and 150 ppm in gasoline. In keeping with the need for continuous improvement, the sub-region is planning to further improve the quality of available…