Indonesia’s Ministry of Environment and Forestry (MoEF) and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) signed a Memorandum of ...

The United Nations has recognized an initiative to restore degraded farmlands in sub-Saharan Africa with a special award.

Barranquilla, Colombia lies on the coast of the Caribbean Sea, surrounded by wetlands and tropical forests. While the ...

Azima Magonde Giston is walking through his cacao plantation, which sits on the fringes of a lush rainforest in the northern ...

In a new video, UNEP explores how one group of chemical compounds is feeding climate change and stoking air pollution.

The Indus River and its tributaries have nurtured human civilization on the Indian sub-continent since the Bronze Age. Several millennia later, modern-day Pakistan still depends heavily on the river ...

For much of his life, cattle farmer Asherly William Hogo was consumed with finding water for his herd. Hogo, who is in his early sixties, still has vivid childhood memories of rising in the middle of ...

Article 16 of the Stockholm Convention requires the Conference of the Parties to evaluate the effectiveness of the Convention, including a Global Monitoring Plan (GMP) to collect comparable and ...

I welcome the G20 Environment and Climate Sustainability Working Group Ministerial Declaration. This declaration both acknowledges the G20’s responsibility for the majority of greenhouse gas emissions ...

It is a pleasure to address this Ministerial meeting of the G20 Environment and Climate Sustainability Working Group. My thanks to Brazil for its leadership of the G20 this year. This leadership is ...