China's Leading Actress Joins Campaign Against Ivory and Rhino...

Elephants crossing the Ewaso Nyiro river in Kenya's Samburu game reserve yesterday. United Nations Environment Programme's goodwill ambassador and Chinese actress Li Bingbing was on an official visit to highlight issues of Africa's

Sponsored by The following information was released by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP): Greening global trade is a vital step to achieving sustainable development, and developing countries are well positioned to help catalyze this ...

UNEP lists third commonest flame retardant The Conference of the Parties (COP) of the United Nations Environment Programme's Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) agreed at its meeting in Geneva in early May to list the ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, May 8, CMC The Jamaica government says it has signed an agreement with the United Nations, cementing the island's participation in a global programme to strengthen disaster risk reduction and disaster

Increased frequency prompts regional action Abu Dhabi: About two years ago all schools in the Riyadh region of Saudi Arabia had to be closed down for two days due to sand and dust storms. Flights were disrupted or diverted and many fatal accidents ...

Involving low-income communities in markets and businesses across Africa is essential for economic growth to translate into sustainable development, according to a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) report released today. Realizing Africa's ...

India submitted its National Action Programme (NAP) to Combat Desertification to the Secretariat of United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in 2001; providing an overview of the status of natural resources in the country, the status and ...

- The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has released a guide to help in promoting investments in renewable energy in developing countries. The goal of the guide - 'Derisking Renewable Energy Investment Around the world, developing ...

The annual meeting to review and measure progress towards targets set in Tunis in 2005 at the UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) opened this morning. This meeting of the WSIS Forum also marks ten years since the first phase of the ...