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The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is responsible for coordinating responses to environmental issues within the United Nations system

Could air conditioning be made more sustainable by using propane as refrigerant?

Possible solutions to the global phosphorus crisis that threatens food and water security

From despair to repair: Dramatic decline of Caribbean corals can be reversed

With only about one-sixth of the original coral cover left, most Caribbean coral reefs may disappear in the next 20 years, primarily due to the loss of grazers in the region, according to the latest report by the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (GCRMN), the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the United

From despair to repair: Dramatic decline of Caribbean corals can be reversed

United Nations Panel Calls Hormone Disruptors a “Global Threat”

An international team of experts reported today that evidence linking hormone-mimicking chemicals to human health problems has grown stronger over the past decade An international team of experts reported today that evidence linking hormone-mimicking chemicals to human health problems has grown stronger over the past decade, becoming a “global threat” that should be addressed. The

United Nations Panel Calls Hormone Disruptors a “Global Threat”

Mercury contamination in water can be detected with a mobile phone

Chemists at the University of Burgos (Spain) have manufactured a sheet that changes colour in the presence of water contaminated with mercury. The results can be seen with the naked eye but when photographing the membrane with a mobile phone the concentration of this extremely toxic metal can be quantified. Mercury contamination is a problem

Mercury contamination in water can be detected with a mobile phone

The global environment: Boundary conditions

The idea of planet-wide environmental boundaries, beyond which humanity would go at its peril, is gaining ground PULL a spring, let it go, and it will snap back into shape. Pull it further and yet further and it will go on springing back until, quite suddenly, it won’t. What was once a spring has become

The global environment: Boundary conditions

Clean Up World Seas to Boost Economy

The report highlights the huge potential of a marine-based economy The report highlights the huge potential of a marine-based economy some five months before world governments meet to discuss pathways to sustainable development at a U.N. conference in Rio LONDON (Reuters) – Cleaner and better-managed seas and coasts would help boost economic growth and

Clean Up World Seas to Boost Economy

Brazil Marine Park and Other Projects Receive Big Environmental Grants

Global Environment Facility funds its most ambitious international programme ever For once, there is good news for the environment: a flurry of international conservation initiatives and environmental research projects were given the green light last week. They were backed with more than half a billion US dollars in grants from the Global Environment Facility

Brazil Marine Park and Other Projects Receive Big Environmental Grants

Can greener gadgets save us from e-waste?

One laptop per child seems a simple slogan, chock full of benefit. What could go wrong when you put the power of the Internet and solar cells into the hands of children in the developing world? After all, not only does it train the global underclass in the tools of modern production, it also unleashes

Can greener gadgets save us from e-waste?

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This position note was published in September 2019 to coincide with the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly. The UN Environment Management Group consists of members from 51 United ...
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The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental ...