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UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme)
Created in 1972, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) addresses environmental issues at the global and regional level. UNEP provides leadership and encourages partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of... More
Sustainable Buildings & Climate Initiative (SBCI)
UNEP-SBCI promotes policies and practices for a sustainably built environment. The building sector has the largest potential of any sector to reduce emissions at low-costs using readily available technologies while creating millions of quality jobs. Companies in the building and construction sector... More
The En.lighten Initiative: Supporting Developing and Emerging Countries in the Shift towards Efficient Lighting
By: Laura Fuller, UNEP En.lighten initiative and Sonia Uribe, UNEP-DTIE
Activities aimed at phasing out inefficient technologies have increasingly been introduced in recent years, yet market forces alone have proven insufficient to achieve rapid transformation in the lighting market to respond to...
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Veolia Environment, UNEP & UNESCO launch environmental awareness campaign
Eleven-year old Cheng Yiyu dreams of a future when water is purified in a magic machine that ensures long life, cleans the polluted oceans and allow all creatures to live in harmony.
Her vision was represented in the "The Charm of Water", a drawing done with four classmates at Jimei school in...
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Businesses promote sustainability in construction sector
SBCI is a global partnership between UNEP and worldwide leading companies, to promote and support sustainable solutions in the building and construction sector. More
IETA and UNDP, UNEP, WB work to bring emission reduction projects to Africa
To help Africa obtain its fair share of emission reduction projects under the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and satisfy growing carbon market interest on the continent, partner international agencies and the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) on Wednesday... More
E&P Forum and UNEP develop environmental report in oil and gas production
Environmental Management in Oil and Gas Exploration and Production, developed by Oil Industry International Exploration and Production Forum (E&P Forum) and UNEP, provide an overview of environmental issues in the oil and gas exploration and production industry, and of the best approaches to... More
McDonald's, The Coca-Cola Company, PepsiCo, Unilever, Carlsberg form Refrigerants, Naturally partnership with support of UNEP and Greenpeace
An alliance of companies - McDonald's,The Coca-Cola Company, PepsiCo, Unilever and Carlsberg - that is promoting a shift in point-of-sale cooling technology in the food and drink, food service and retail sectors towards alternative refrigeration technology that protects the Earth's climate and... More
The Proteus Partnership: Making Biodiversity and Ecosystem Data Available to All
By: Garrette Clark, UNEP
While there have been significant advances in the development of policies to incorporate biodiversity issues in businesses’ operations, reliable and accessible data on the distribution of biodiversity and ecosystem services can be a hurdle to a company’s ability to...
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National Cleaner Production Centres bring 'cleaner vision' to the world
Since 1994 UNEP, in partnership with UNIDO and local host organisations, have supported Cleaner Production (CP) policy analysis, training activities, in-plant demonstrations and information networking through the setting-up of a number of National Cleaner Production Centres (NCPC) around the world. More