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  1. Looking back at the environmental highs - and lows - of 2024

    Dec 30, 2024 · From a landmark deal to fund conservation to chilling news about greenhouse gas emissions, 2024 was a rollercoaster year for the planet. Here’s a closer look at some of the most …

  2. Global Environment Outlook (GEO) - UNEP

    Sep 12, 2025 · A series of reports that review the state and direction of the global environment at regional, national, and local levels around the world.

  3. UNEP - UN Environment Programme

    The global authority for the environment with programmes focusing on climate, nature, pollution, sustainable development and more.

  4. Why Environmental Policy - UNEP - UN Environment Programme

    Apr 23, 2025 · In the landscape of today’s scientific research and how this resonates with society, the three interconnected environmental crises of climate change, nature, land and biodiversity loss, and …

  5. Global Environment Outlook - UNEP

    The Global Environmental Outlook (GEO) is a series of reports that review the state and direction of the global environment. It is a global process spearheaded by the United Nations Environment …

  6. Africa | UNEP - UN Environment Programme

    Aug 29, 2025 · UNEP's Africa Office supports the continent on its journey towards forging a new relationship between people and the earth.

  7. AI has an environmental problem. Here’s what the world can do

    Nov 13, 2025 · The sprawling data centres that house AI servers churn out toxic electronic waste and are voracious consumers of electricity, which in most places is still produced from fossil fuels.

  8. Everything you should know about microplastics - UNEP

    Jun 2, 2025 · If you’ve been following the global conversation around plastic pollution, you’ve probably heard of microplastics. These small particles have turned up everywhere from the depths of the …

  9. Plastic Pollution - UNEP

    Every day, the equivalent of 2,000 garbage trucks full of plastic are dumped into the world's oceans, rivers, and lakes. Plastic pollution is a global problem. Every year 19-23 million tonnes of plastic …

  10. Youth push for action on environmental crises - UNEP

    Dec 23, 2025 · More than 1,000 young people from 70 countries gathered ahead of the seventh session of the Open-ended Committee of Permanent Representatives (OECPR) in Nairobi, Kenya, for the …