Resources

25 per cent of the warming we are experiencing today comes from methane. The oil and gas sector are one of the largest sources of anthropogenic methane. Low-cost emissions reductions across the industry could provide up to 15 per cent of the…

Vaccine rollout is an opportunity to create a new, sustainable cold chain that will be of use well beyond the current crisis After 11 dark months, the end of the COVID-19 pandemic is tantalizingly in sight. In…

Lake Bogoria in Kenya’s Rift Valley region is a soda lake – extremely salty and alkaline, unable to support fish. It has deep spiritual and cultural significance for the Endorois people, who have been its…

There was a time when industrial agriculture seemed to be a panacea for a fast-growing world.  Synthetic fertilizers, chemical pesticides and high-yield cereal hybrids promised to reduce hunger, accommodate growing…

  Geneva, 11 May 2019 – Decisions on plastic waste have been reached today in Geneva, as approximately 180 governments adopted a raft of decisions aimed at protecting human health and the environment from the…

Did you know that scientists can modify microorganisms like E. coli by rewriting their genetic code to turn them into tiny living factories that produce biofuel? Or that Baker’s yeast can also be reprogrammed to…

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…

 We work to ramp up and sustain the effective participation in the Biosafety Clearing House (BCH) of Parties that are eligible for GEF funding; to ensure that participating countries have established sustainable national procedures to gather…

UN Environment in collaboration with the Global Environment Facility is supporting 10 member countries of the Central African Forests Commission, to carry out activities leading to the ratification and…

Gambia’s Department of Parks and Wildlife Management, in collaboration with UN Environment, organized the first national Biosafety Clearing House capacity-building workshop, in June 2018, in Gambia. The workshop…