Four years ago, Aziza Mohammed Abdallah Mukhtar was scraping a living growing tobacco in the community of Zamzam in Sudan’s arid North Darfur State. Like many Darfuris, Aziza, 52, has lived for...
Human health in dire straits if urgent actions are not made to protect the environment, warns landmark UN report Nairobi, Kenya, 13 March, 2019 – The most comprehensive and rigorous assessment on the...
Getting 193 United Nations Member States to see eye to eye on a range of pressing environmental issues is not easy. While the world is “getting smaller”, and technology is bringing us together as...
On any given morning in the locality of Al-Rahad in Sudan, women like Hawa Abdullah, dressed in bright colours, can be seen turning up the earth of their land or scattering seeds on their tractors...
Outline Introduction, the full package from 1992 todate. Objective Obligations/Commitments Reporting Institutional Mechanism Technical and Implementation bodies; Financial mechanism; Compliance...
Beating plastic pollution Reducing plastic pollution of the oceans is a priority issue for UN Environment. In 2018, we helped nations and individuals make huge commitments to giving up single-use...
5 March 2019 – On 26 October 2018, a major fish kill episode that wiped out millions of mostly caged farmed carp in Iraq’s central Euphrates region sent the country into major panic. Fear spread that...
The United Nations General Assembly declared 2021–2030 the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 01 March 2019, New York - The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, declared today by the UN General...
As the Samburu fight for control over natural resources, Samburu women are demanding to be heard The Samburu, a pastoralist indigenous tribe from the vast semi-arid and arid rangelands of Northern...
In recent years, the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) has been mobilizing parliaments and calling for action on climate change and risk reduction. Since 2009, the Union has organized parliamentary...