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UN Environment’s new Freshwater Strategy 2017-2021 helps embed this perspective into national development plans to achieve the SDGs and other development goals. When I was a young adult going to school in an urban area in the United States, I often heard about the scourge of the lack of proper education for the kids in our […]

UN Environment’s new Freshwater Strategy 2017-2021 helps embed this perspective into national development plans to achieve the SDGs and other development goals. When I was a young adult going to school in an urban area in the United States, I often heard about the scourge of the lack of proper education for the kids in our […]

By Johan Kieft (UN Environment – Regional technical specialist) and Richard Wecker (UNICEF Indonesia – DRR specialist), originally published on the UN-REDD blog. Large-scale conversion of natural peatland and forests to croplands on the islands Sumatra, Borneo (Kalimantan) and Papua has radically altered the lives and livelihoods of millions of Indonesians in recent decades. Slash-and-burn […]

By Tim Christophersen, acting Chief of UN Environment’s Terrestrial Ecosystems Unit and REDD+ Team Leader. Rooting out climate change Let’s face it: we are not on track to win the war against climate change. Time is running out, and more and more citizens around the world are starting to feel the effects of a warming […]

Written by Steve Swan for the UN-REDD Programme The past 12 months have seen an intensification of countries’ efforts to meet UNFCCC safeguard requirements as they move towards REDD+ implementation, and the UN-REDD Programme has been stepping up its technical assistance to meet this upsurge in demand for support on safeguards. Significant progress has been […]

Written by Thais Narciso for UNEP’s stories Mining activities – whether artisanal or industrial in scale – result in two types of environmental and social impacts: primary impacts, which occur on or immediately adjacent to an extraction site, and secondary impacts, which occur because of infrastructure development, population movements, and changes in local economies. Secondary […]