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As plastic pollution imperils human and environmental health, a new UNEP-developed app is aiming to spur widespread uptake of youth-focused community-based solutions.

UNEP’s Chief of HR discusses the fast-growing job market for environmental professionals, the need for young people’s perspectives in green jobs and UNEP’s new talent acquisition initiative.

In Mali, a new app is providing crucial data for millet farmers in their battle against climate change.

Nairobi, 31 March 2023 – The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has launched the Young Talent Pipeline, a new initiative aimed at increasing the diversity of experiences and solutions to solve the triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature loss and pollution and waste. UNEP, in partnership with the UN Volunteers (UNV) programme, is actively seeking young, passionate, and skilled talent from all over the world to join the organization and become the environmental leaders of tomorrow. This o...

26 of 30 nations in Latin America and the Caribbean include a focus on the environment at some level in primary school curricula. The Environmental Education Resources Guide is launched and aims uptake from primary school teachers and environmental educators throughout the Latin America and Caribbean region.

From Rwanda to India, faith-based organizations are countering deforestation, which claims an area of tree cover larger than Portugal every year.From Rwanda to India, faith-based organizations are countering deforestation, which claims an area of tree cover larger than Portugal every year.

During the 2022 UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15), the University of Oxford and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) announce a new global initiative to drive the world’s higher education sector towards a greener future as part of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. Through the Nature Positive Universities Alliance, 117 Universities have already taken an official pledge and begun assessing their environmental impact, in order to make tailored actions to improve their ecological footprint o...

With the 27th United Nations Climate Change conference (COP27) underway, try the new Voices of Africa filter on Instagram to call on world leaders to scale up climate action.

Improved intergenerational dialogue can help further climate action

The winners of the third Green Game Jam Awards were unveiled with studios including Supercell’s Hay Day, Ubisoft’s Rider’s Republic and Tilting Point’s Terragenesis emerging victorious from an incredibly competitive field of 42 entries.