It is supported by the United Nations Environment Programme and World Wildlife Fund International.
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is calling for an assessment of bombed sites containing weapons with depleted uranium.
In February 1995, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) organized a conference in Nairobi regarding such international taxes and fees.
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It was decided that the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) will provide the Secretariat for the Platform, which will operate from Bonn in Germany.
Funding for the group has been provided by the Waterloo Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
The United Nations Environment Programme says 75m-250m Africans could go thirsty.
The United Nations Environment Programme's Post-Conflict Assessment Unit has published a report on DU contamination found in Bosnia-Herzegovina up to seven years after the conflict there.
"The way humanity manages or mismanages its nature-based assets, including pollinators, will in part define our collective future in the 21st century, " said United Nations Environment Programme executive director Achim Steiner.
Many luminaries, from the head of the United Nations Environment Programme to Barack Obama, America's president-elect, tout the industry as a means both to address global warming and stimulate flagging Western economies.
Part of the United Nations Environment Programme's China Rural Energy Enterprises Development (CREED) initiative, the program has successful precedents in five African nations -- Senegal, Mali, Ghana, Zambia and Tanzania -- and northeast Brazil.
In the framework of efforts to reduce Co2 gas emissions, the Executive Heads participated in the inauguration of the new energy efficient office building for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and UN-Habitat in Nairobi.
Over the course of ten years, this joint initiative--which unites agencies including the ICSU, UNESCO, the United Nations Environment Programme and the United Nations University--will mobilize thousands of scientists to develop knowledge that addresses the environmental change.
Ministers and officials will be coming to Brussels fresh from an informal two-day session at UN climate convention headquarters in Bonn, where they've heard United Nations Environment Programme chief scientist Joseph Alcamo outline a few key issues.
The United Nations Environment Programme (Unep) says the increase in the levels of emissions in this year's report is due to projected economic growth in some developing countries and the removal of some emissions cuts that were counted twice.
Last year, a report by the United Nations Environment Programme said that over half a century of oil operation in the region, by firms including Shell, had caused deeper damage to the Ogoniland area of the Niger Delta than earlier estimated.
The team, led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and working closely with the Lebanese authorities, is visiting and sampling the sites along the country's coast which are thought to present potential risks to human health, wildlife and the wider environment.
UNESCO, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) are acting as the interim Secretariat of IPBES until such time a permanent secretariat is set up in Bonn.
According to a recent report by the United Nations Environment Programme, reducing black carbon and ozone in the lower part of the atmosphere, especially in the Arctic countries of America, Canada, Russia and Scandinavia, could cut warming in the Arctic by two-thirds over the next three decades.
Bae-Yong Lee, Chairman of the Presidential Council on Nation Branding, Gun-Soo Kim, Secretary-General of the Expo Organizing Committee, Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, Wendy Watson-Wright, Executive Secretary of UNESCO-IOC, and Taeck-Soo Chun, Secretary-General of the Korean National Commission for UNESCO were present at the opening ceremony.
This interdisciplinary initiative is jointly established and scientifically sponsored by an alliance that includes the International Council for Science (ICSU), the International Social Science Council (ISSC), the Belmont Forum, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the United Nations University (UNU), and strongly supported by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
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