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The sustainable use of natural assets is critical to Brazil’s present and future generations. But to do so while monitoring biodiversity loss and conservation efforts, it is crucial to understand the nation’s resources first. Photo: José Sabino/UN Environment.

March 5, 2019 | Feature Story

Megadiverse Brazil: giving biodiversity an online boost
Managing ocean resources is a global responsibility that requires focus and perseverance. Thirty percent of the world’s fish stocks are overexploited, threatening fish and plant species and the ability of people who depend on marine and coastal biodiversity to earn a living and feed their families. Photo: NaniP/Shutterstock.

March 1, 2019 | Feature Story

Sustainable fishery in the Pacific saves global tuna stocks and small islanders’ livelihoods
Working across production, financing and demand, the Good Growth Partnership convenes a wide range of stakeholders and initiatives to reduce deforestation and enable sustainable development in three global commodity supply chains: soy, beef and palm oil. Photo: Muhd Fuad Abd Rahim/Shutterstock.

February 27, 2019 | Blog

How finance can reduce deforestation
Congo Basin rainforest is a shared global asset that is critical to the planet’s health. And, like the increasingly rare great apes that inhabit it, this asset is in desperate need of protection. Photo: Sergey Uryadnikov/Shutterstock.

February 22, 2019 | Blog

The Congo Basin is critical to the health of our planet
The reduction of agricultural biodiversity in global food systems is of growing concern. Photo: Edmund Lowe Photography / Shutterstock.

February 19, 2019 | News

Towards a “Great Food Transformation”
Camarines Norte, the Philippines: Mercury combines with gold to create an amalgam, which is then heated to evaporate the mercury, leaving only gold. Photo: Veejay Villafranca/ UN Environment

February 17, 2019 | Press Release

$180 million investment to tackle the hidden cost of gold
The agenda to transform Freetown has created an opportunity for the country to tackle the many challenges of urbanization. National Dialogue in Sierra Leone explored the possibility of the country’s participation in the Sustainable Cities Impact Program in GEF-7. Photo: Mohamed Bakarr/GEF.

February 14, 2019 | News

Financing environmental priorities: how recipient countries are taking center stage in delivering GEF-7 strategy

The government of Lao PDR is committed to a climate resilient and sustainable development, and important progress has been achieved in the areas of floods protection and water management, resilient agriculture, and forest conservation. Photo: Suchada Rujayakornkun/Shutterstock.

February 13, 2019 | News

GCF and GEF join forces with Lao PDR to advance climate action
Jamaican iguanas were considered the country’s first farmers. Photo: Dominic Davis/UNDP Jamaica.

February 13, 2019 | Feature Story

Jamaica's "Jurassic Park" moment
Installing the new automatic weather station in Preah Sihanouk, under the UNDP-supported project ‘Strengthening Climate Information and Early Warning Systems in Cambodia’ 2018. © MOWRAM Cambodia.

February 4, 2019 | News

New partnership on drought mitigation supports Cambodia's climate change preparedness efforts

February 1, 2019 | Feature Story

Independent recovery efforts blossom into resilient climate action in Mexico

January 31, 2019 | News

Scorecard measures nutrient pollution in Kenya’s Lake Naivasha

January 24, 2019 | Feature Story

The marrow of nature: Protecting the Yangshan Wetland

January 24, 2019 | News

Driving change toward a world without waste

January 23, 2019 | News

India will host UNCCD COP14