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UN Environment Programme (UNEP)
Greening lands, feeding people: UN awards three restoration flagships at UNCCD COP17
The UN today awarded three new World Restoration Flagships in Brazil, the Sahel region, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The initiatives are strengthening landscape productivity by restoring degraded ecosystems …
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
UNEA-7 charts a path toward a resilient planet
After a busy year for the global environmental agenda, starting with the sixth session of the United Nations …
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
Resilience rising: Targeting transformative disaster risk reduction in Asia-Pacific subregions
In December 2024, Vanuatu experienced yet another harrowing reminder of its vulnerability to disasters—a powerful 7.4 magnitude earthquake …
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News / Water
‘Rivers do not stop at political boundaries’: Bhutan’s Princess on forests, water and Himalayan cooperation
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Opinion / Carbon & Climate
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