United Nations Environment Program (Nairobi)
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November 28
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Africa: New Finance Models to Address Climate Change [press release]
The World Economic Forum and the United Nations Climate Change secretariat announced today the launch of "Momentum for Change: Innovative Financing for Climate-friendly... Read more »
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Africa: Thawing of Permafrost Expected to Cause Significant Additional Global Warming, Not Yet Accounted for in Climate Predictions [press release]
Permafrost covering almost a quarter of the northern hemisphere contains 1,700 gigatonnes of carbon, twice that currently in the atmosphere, and could significantly amplify global... Read more »
November 22
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Africa: Action on Climate Change to be Scaled-Up - Report [press release]
Keeping Average Global Temperature Rise to Below 2°C Still Achievable, with Potentially Big Cuts Possible from Buildings, Transportation and Avoided Deforestation - But Time is... Read more »
November 21
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Africa: Greenhouse Gas Emissions Gap Widening As Nations Head to Crucial Climate Talks in Doha [press release]
Action on climate change needs to be scaled-up and accelerated without delay if the world is to have a running chance of keeping a global average temperature rise below 2 degrees... Read more »
November 10
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Kenya: Green Innovators Receive Young Environmental Leader Award [press release]
Three students from Costa Rica, Kenya and Vietnam have received a major international youth award from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Bayer in recognition of... Read more »
November 8
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Kenya: New Constitution, Public Opinion Give Nation Unique Opportunity to Reverse Deforestation That Costs Economy U.S.$70 Million Each Year [press release]
Kenya should seize a unique opportunity provided by the new constitution and public opinion to reverse deforestation in the nation's water towers, which deprives the economy of... Read more »
November 7
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Kenya: Deforestation Costing Kenyan Economy Millions of Dollars Each Year and Increasing Water Shortage Risk [press release]
Deforestation deprived Kenya's economy of 5.8 billion shillings ($US 68 million) in 2010 and 6.6 billion shillings in 2009, far outstripping the roughly 1.3 billion shillings... Read more »
November 6
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Africa: The Global Garbage Crisis - No Time to Waste [press release]
With approximately 1.3 billion tonnes of municipal waste generated each year, and volumes expected to increase to 2.2 billion tonnes by 2025 according to World Bank figures, urgent... Read more »
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Kenya: Deforestation Costing Kenyan Economy Millions of Dollars Each Year and Increasing Water Shortage Risk [press release]
Deforestation deprived Kenya's economy of 5.8 billion shillings ($US 68 million) in 2010 and 6.6 billion shillings in 2009, far outstripping the roughly 1.3 billion shillings... Read more »
October 31
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Africa: New UN Collaborating Centre for Energy Efficient Lighting Opens in Beijing [press release]
Efforts by developing countries to phase-out inefficient incandescent lamps received a significant boost today as the UN and partners announced the opening of the Global Efficient... Read more »
October 24
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Africa: UN Chemical Experts Recommend That Widely Used Flame Retardant Be Phased Out of Global Production and Use [press release]
A UN expert body has recommended that the industrial flame retardant hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD) be eliminated from the global marketplace to protect human health and the... Read more »
October 18
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Africa: Faster Progress Needed On Targets to Protect Worlds Key Nature Sites, Says UN Report [press release]
Despite the growing number of nature reserves, national parks and other protected areas across the globe, half of the world's richest biodiversity zones remain entirely... Read more »
October 17
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Africa: Vital Economic and Environmental Role of Wetlands Must Be Recognized to Avoid Further Degradation and Losses [press release]
The key role that rapidly diminishing wetlands play in supporting human life and biodiversity needs to be recognized and integrated into decision-making as a vital component of the... Read more »
October 16
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Africa: UN Report Warns Ecological Foundations That Support Food Security, Biodiversity, Are Being Undermined [press release]
The aim of achieving food security across the globe will become increasingly elusive unless countries factor the planet's nature-based services into agricultural and related... Read more »
October 15
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Africa: Biodiversity Conservation Can Improve Human Health in Worlds Growing Cities, Says UN Assessment [press release]
Global urbanization will have significant implications for biodiversity and ecosystems if current trends continue, with knock-on effects for human health and development, according... Read more »
October 11
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Africa: Young Winners of Global Art Competition On the Environment Awarded in Brazil [press release]
Young artists from across the world were honoured today at a special prize-giving ceremony in Brazil for the 21st International Children's Painting Competition on the Environment. Read more »
October 9
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Africa: UN Biodiversity Meeting to Discuss Progress Made and Challenges to Implement the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011 - 2020 [press release]
Governments are meeting in Hyderabad, India, from 8 to 19 October 2012, at the eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 11) to the Convention on Biological Diversity... Read more »
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South Africa: UNEP Evaluation of 2010 World Cups Green Performance Shows South Africa Successes and Way Forward for Brazil [press release]
As Brazil prepares for the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Summer Olympics, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Tuesday released a report on the environmental performance of South Africa... Read more »
October 4
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Kenya: Students Named As 2012 Young Environmental Envoys [press release]
Two young environmental leaders from Nairobi and Mombasa have been unveiled as the 2012 Young Environmental Envoys for Kenya, as part of an initiative organized by Bayer and the... Read more »
October 2
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Kenya: On World Habitat Day, UN Encourages All to Build On Urban Opportunities [press release]
In celebrating this year's World Habitat Day, the UN's city agency, UN-Habitat has called for nations and citizens alike to harness the opportunities found in cities and towns to... Read more »
September 27
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Central Africa: Organized Crime responsible for Up to 90 Percent of Deforestation [press release]
Between 50 to 90 per cent of logging in key tropical countries of the Amazon basin, Central Africa and South East Asia is being carried out by organized crime threatening efforts... Read more »
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Africa: Countries Agree New Plan for Global Shark Conservation [press release]
Government representatives from 50 countries have gathered in Bonn, Germany, for the first meeting of signatories to the Memorandum of Understanding on the Conservation of... Read more »
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Kenya: One Year On : UNEP Remembers Wangari Maathai [press release]
It was during the 1993 Vienna World Conference on Human Rights that I first met Wanagari Maathai. Our paths would cross many times in the following years. Read more »
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Africa: Policy Makers Seek to Reduce Pollution for Clean Air Benefits and Climate Protection [press release]
Today, high-level government officials, policymakers, environmental experts and industrial stakeholders from 15 countries converged in Africa for the first time in order to... Read more »
September 24
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Africa: Experts Warn of Water Bankruptcy [press release]
A study of almost 200 major international water-related projects over the past 20 years has identified a suite of existing and emerging challenges and how science can offer... Read more »
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