COP17 must deliver a strong Yerevan Pathway through cooperation, finance and biodiversity action to implement global goals on.

Human-caused methane emissions are responsible for roughly a third of the planet’s current warming. Reducing these emissions is the fastest, most cost-effective way to slow global warming in the ...

The UNEP Emissions Gap Report (EGR) series tracks our progress in limiting global warming well below 2°C and pursuing 1.5°C in line with the Paris Agreement. Since 2010, it has provided an annual ...

The Twelfth Conference of the Parties (COP12) to the Nairobi Convention concluded with 15 decisions aimed at accelerating action for the protection, management, and sustainable development of the ...

For every US$1 the world invests in protecting nature, it spends US$30 on destroying it. This stark imbalance is the central finding of a new UN Environment Programme (UNEP) report released today. It ...

Households across all continents wasted over 1 billion meals a day in 2022, while 783 million people were affected by hunger and a third of humanity faced food insecurity. Food waste continues to hurt ...

“We’ve seen some encouraging progress but the reality is that most countries are not on pace to meet their biodiversity targets by 2030,” said Doreen Lynn Robinson, Deputy Director of the Ecosystems ...

With half of the global population under 30, young people are not just inheriting the planet—they are actively driving the transition to cleaner technologies and a greener future. UNEP is committed to ...

In a single-minded pursuit of GDP growth, humanity is inadvertently feeding a series of environmental crises that over the long run threaten to make most of us poorer, sicker and more miserable. The ...

We have until the end of the decade to reverse the trajectory of nature loss and land degradation. Transformational change is achievable if we act decisively through a whole-of-government, ...

See below the resolutions and decisions and declarations made available from previous sessions.

UNEP’s Latin America and the Caribbean Office is working to build more resilient livelihoods through healthy ecosystems. In Costa Rica’s Golfo Dulce, restoring degraded mangrove forests is protecting ...