Stockholm+50 Urges the World to Reinvigorate and Inspire
As the world celebrated the 50 years of multilateral environmental action, Professor Maria Ivanova and a doctoral student in Global...
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The Untold Story of the World's Leading Environmental Institution. UNEP at Fifty
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) was founded in 1972 as a nimble, fast, and flexible entity at the core of the UN system—a subsidiary body rather than a specialized agency.
UNEP@50 Dialogue Series
Anniversaries offer opportunities to reflect on the past and imagine the future. In 2022, the United Nations Environment Programme turns fifty and has a chance to reimagine itself.
Bridging Academia, Policy, and Practice
We are a group of global scholars working together to produce and circulate research at the science-policy interface to inform environmental governance at the local, regional, domestic, and international levels.
Our Projects
Creating Communities of Practice
UNEP has the comparative advantage of hosting 15 Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) and maintains an administrative and programmatic collaboration relationship with them.
Environmental Conventions Index
Ten major environmental conventions with over 120 nation-state signatories each comprise the core set of international legal instruments for collective and coordinated action on global environmental challenges.
Reimagining Environmental Multilateralism
Creating a network of smaller nations to address global warming and environment management through multilateral actions.
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