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Committed individuals around the world are eager to create landscapes that work for people and the planet, and the new Landscape Academy helps them do just that. Equipping youth, “green” entrepreneurs and mid-career…

UN Environment has been working with a broad range of partners to better assess the health of lake ecosystems in India, Kenya and the Philippines. Economic activity in and around Lake Naivasha, and the rapidly growing…

UN Environment and partners are working in Africa to boost agricultural production, create jobs, and counter climate unpredictability. In Ngoulemakong commune in Cameroon’s Sud Province, solar driers have been used since…

International regulations are failing to keep up with the mind-boggling pace of new scientific discoveries and potential “cowboy” applications. As we go about our daily lives we never quite know what is around the corner.…

In the 1980s, the hilly Qianyanzhou region in Jiangxi Province, southern China, faced severe soil erosion due to deforestation and unsustainable farming practices. Fertile red soil was being washed away causing crop yields…

While most of us are not aware of it, sand is – after air and water – the third most used resource on the planet. Every house, dam, road, wine glass and cellphone contains it. Even a seemingly endless resource like sand…

The human population is still growing and needs space and resources. It is, therefore, not easy to reconcile development, biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation efforts. Which areas can be allocated for…

Every year, UN Environment publishes a myriad of content hoping to give you, our readers, a glimpse of what we do. We cover a wide range of environmental issues such as climate change, threats to ecosystems, biodiversity,…

Nairobi, 19 December 2018 – Building on the momentum of climate action from the just concluded Conference of Parties (COP24), UN Environment today joined the government of Kenya for the launch of ‘Greening Kenya Campaign’,…

An innovative finance project in Indonesia is providing jobs while preserving the habitat of endangered species. Sri Hartiwi, a rubber tapper in Indonesia’s Jambi Province on the island of Sumatra, has a demanding routine.…