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Download logo President Uhuru Kenyatta has announced the creation of a peace and environment award dubbed “Amani and Mazingira Global Award” as part of the celebrations to mark the 50th anniversary of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The President said the bi-annual award, which will be sponsored by the Government and the people of […]

The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) marked its 50-year anniversary Thursday at its headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. Activists have criticized the organization as being slow to address global threats to the environment, such as pollution and climate change. But at the U.N.'s Environment Assembly this week over 100 nations pledged to negotiate a binding treaty…

In the mid-1970s, scientists warned that man-made chemicals in everyday products like aerosols, foams, refrigerators and air-conditioners were harming the ozone layer.At that time, they didnt know the scale of the problem. But in 1985, a hole ...

Big efforts to pick up plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch can harm sea life and produce carbon emissions.

Heads of State raised a united plea for multilateral action this week marking the 50th anniversary of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). The Special Session of the UN Environment Assembly, which wraps up Friday in Nairobi, addresses how to build a resilient and inclusive post-pandemic world.

Today, the United Nations Environment Assembly adopted a broad negotiating mandate for a new legally binding international agreement on plastic pollution.

With the help of EU diplomacy which has helped secure the support of the global community, the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA), meeting in Nairobi, agreed on March 2 to launch negotiations on a legally binding global agreement to reduce and eventually eliminate plastic pollution in all en

The President praised UNEP as an "ecological conscience," and "a credible platform for nations to come together and act boldly to advance the global environmental agenda".

The world is in a bigger and more devastating climate emergency than previously believed, according to a report by United Nations experts.