UN Environment Program
- Opinion by Petteri Taalas, Achim Steiner and Inger Andersen
- • October 31, 2021
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Just days before the COP26 environment summit in Glasgow, Scotland, three of the United Nations’ lead agencies on climate and development each published alarming reports. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) produced evidence to show that greenhouse gases reached a…
- Categories: Climate Change, OPINIONS
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- Maurizio Guerrero
- • March 30, 2021
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Inger Andersen, the executive director of the United Nations Environment Program, has been working from Copenhagen since March 2020 — away from the agency’s headquarters in Nairobi for a year. The Gigiri Complex, which houses the UN offices in Kenya’s…
- Categories: Africa, UN Agencies
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- Nate Bernard
- • April 22, 2020
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Inger Andersen is closing in on her first year as executive director of the United Nations Environment Program just as the Covid-19 crisis upends her agency’s work while also underscoring its critical need. “Never before have the mandate, mission…
- Categories: Climate Change, Covid-19
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- Fiona Shukri
- • February 18, 2020
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The United Nations system has instituted some important changes toward becoming what it calls climate neutral. Some employees and former employees, however, think the UN could be doing much more to reduce the organization’s carbon footprint globally and to…
- Categories: Climate Change, Secretary-General
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- Barbara Crossette
- • April 24, 2019
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A sea of new or lingering allegations of harassment and corruption in numerous agencies and programs in the United Nations system appears to be washing over a sprawling organization battered by scandal. Poor or careless management and oversight, from…
- Categories: Gender Violence, SDGs, Special Report, UN Agencies
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- Opinion by Helmut Volger
- • June 8, 2017
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BERLIN — It is a widely held view in political circles here that Germany has not been adequately represented in the United Nations, apart from its relatively frequent elected membership to the Security Council, which Germany has held five…
- Categories: OPINIONS, UN Agencies
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- Opinion by Stephen Browne and Thomas G. Weiss
- • March 27, 2017
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GENEVA — Whether or not he is a fan of Chinese characters, António Guterres will have to discover the double meaning of a crisis as opportunity. United Nations corridors on First Avenue in New York are buzzing with anxiety…
- Categories: OPINIONS, Secretary-General, US-UN Relations
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- Opinion by Franz Baumann
- • August 2, 2016
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How green is the United Nations’ own environmental policies? Shepherding the Paris climate agreement to conclusion in December 2015 has been a major achievement of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. The agreement got more than 190 states to commit to hold…
- Categories: OPINIONS
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- Opinion by Helmut Volger
- • February 5, 2015
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BERLIN — The history of the United Nations Environment Program is illustrative in two respects: it reflects the changing importance of environmental issues within the UN system and it demonstrates that dedicated people in a UN organization can master…
- Categories: OPINIONS
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- Jacob S. Glass
- • August 19, 2014
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — A new law in Peru encouraging investment in the country’s extractive industries has reignited the debate on the lack of power indigenous women have in the mostly rural societies where they often live. The International Indigenous Women’s Forum,…
- Categories: Climate Change, Human Rights, Latin America, Women
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- Jacob S. Glass
- • July 7, 2014
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Two summers ago, Bill Grafton, the president emeritus of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation, and commercial fishermen lifted a 5,000-pound net ball from coastal waters off Provincetown, Massachusetts. The knot of plastic and rope was so heavy that his…
- Categories: Climate Change
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