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The resumed fifth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-5.2) takes place online and in Nairobi on 28 February – 2 March 2022. The overall theme for UNEA-5 is “Strengthening Actions for Nature to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals”. This highlights the pivotal role nature plays in our lives and in social, economic and environmental sustainable development. Immediately after UNEA-5.2, the Assembly will hold a Special Session of the Assembly on 3 - 4 March 2022, which is devoted to the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the creation of UN Environment Programm...

United Nations Environment Programme climate change expert Pascal Peduzzi talks about sea ice loss.

Unsplash / 02 Mar 2021 If anybody needed a reminder about why our planet is in trouble, UNEP’s Making Peace with Nature report gave it in detail. This report, released by the UN Secretary-General last week in the run up to UNEA-5, brought home the full scale of the planetary emergency. If we do not take action, future generations stand to inherit a hothouse planet with more carbon in the atmosphere than in 800,000 years and still rising. Future generations will live in sinking cities. From Basra to Lagos. From Mumbai to Houston. The global economy has grown, but the world’s stock of nat...

Duck conservation takes flight in Jamaica On January 20, 2021, the day of the inauguration of American president Joe Biden, two ducks named “Joe” and “Kamala” took flight from a remote wetland near Negril, Jamaica. And, like their namesakes, the fowl will be the focus of international attention. That’s because Joe and Kamala are West Indian whistling ducks, the rarest duck species in the Americas, with fewer than 20,000 remaining, found only in the northern Caribbean. Conservationists released the pair, which were outfitted with GPS trackers, into the wild on 20 January, kicking of...

UNEA-5 ends with clear message: act now to tackle planetary crises Photo: UNEP / 24 Feb 2021 The virtual Participants were left in no doubt that 2021 marks a critical turning point if the world wants to secure a future where people and planet can thrive together. UNEP’s Executive Director Inger Andersen described the cost of inaction “Unless we take action, future generations stand to inherit a hothouse planet with more carbon in the atmosphere than in 800,000 years. Unless we take action, future generations will live in sinking cities. From Basra to Lagos. From Mumbai to Houston. Unl...