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Joint Statement on Jagersfontein tailings failure from the co-conveners of the Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management (GISTM): ICMM, PRI and UNEP The failure of a dam containing mine waste – or tailings –…

Air pollution is at the heart of global public health, economy, agriculture, biodiversity, environment and climate crisis that both affects and needs the urgent attention of all sectors of society. The evidence is…

While wildfires are a normal and even essential process in nature, there is nothing normal or natural about the blazes we are seeing raging across Europe, North America and other parts of the world. The United…

Today, the UN General Assembly made history. Today, the General Assembly adopted a resolution recognizing the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment. Today, the General Assembly delivered a victory…

In October 2021, an inter-religious message and appeal acknowledged the need to align financial investments with environmentally and socially responsible standards, ensuring greater accountability and transparency…

BANGKOK (22 April 2022) – UN Human Rights and the UN Environment Programme expressed grave concern over the arrest, detention and sentencing of environmental human rights defenders in Viet Nam on charges of tax…

Statement from Inger Andersen, Executive Director, UNEP I do not need to tell you that the global water challenge we face is one of epic proportions – that of quality, of quantity, of equity, of access, of climate…

Statement from Inger Andersen, Executive Director, UNEP As UNEP commemorates its 50th anniversary, ASCOBANS – the Agreement on the Conservation of Small Cetaceans of the Baltic, North-East Atlantic Irish and North…

Mr. Espen Barth Eide, Minister of Climate and the Environment, Norway Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen. I am really glad to be here with you here in Nairobi for the final plenary of the OECPR. I want to start by…

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Health Organization (WHO) welcome the…