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The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is responsible for coordinating responses to environmental issues within the United Nations system. [1] [2] It was established by Maurice Strong, its first director, after the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm in June 1972.
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The United Nations decade on Ecosystem Restoration began on World Environment Day, 5 June 2021. In a June 2021 report to help launch the decade, the UN called for nations to deliver on existing ecosystem restoration commitments, which in total add up to over 1 billion hectares, an area bigger than China. About half the world's GDP is directly ...
5 May: The United Nations Environment Programme's Global Methane Assessment forecast that human-caused methane emissions can be reduced by up to 45 percent this decade and would avoid nearly 0.3 °C of global warming by 2045, and can be consistent with keeping the 1.5˚C goal for the century. [134]
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It was presented by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) [2] at the G20 Leaders' Summit in 2021. IMEO creates a public global dataset of empirically verified methane emissions, with an initial focus on fossil fuel sources, and interconnects this data with actions on research, reporting, and regulation. [3]
Global Environment Outlook (GEO) is a series of reports that review the state and direction of the global environment, issued periodically by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). The GEO project is a response to the environmental reporting requirements of UN Agenda 21 and to a UNEP Governing Council decision of May 1995.
UNEP FI is a Unit within the United Nations Environment Programme's Resources and Markets Branch, itself a Branch of one of the UNEP's eight core divisions, the Industry and Economy Division. [5] UNEP FI's daily activities are run by a Secretariat based in Geneva, Switzerland, led by Eric Usher since 2015. [6]