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The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP)

Origins and Background

Organizational and Administrative Structure

UNEP’s Activities

Environmental Legal Instruments

• Multilateral Environmental Conventions (MECs)
• Non-binding Environmental Instruments

Environment and Trade

Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-based Activities

Managing Waters for African Cities  

The Global International Water Assessment (GIWA)

Financial Institutions Initiative

Global Resource Information Database (GRID)

Infoterra

Partnership Initiatives

• Global Environmental Facility (GEF)
• Earth Report
• Environmental Emergencies Unit – in Partnership with the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
• World Conservation Monitoring Center (WCMC)

UNEP Events and Awards

Key UNEP Publications

Reports

• Global Environmental Outlook (GEO)
• Pachamama: Our Earth, Our Future
• World Resources: Environmental Change and Human Health
• Environmental Indicators Global Monitoring Systems
• World Resources 2000-2001: People and Ecosystems, the Fraying Web of Life (UNDP,UNEP, World Bank, and World Resources Institute)
• UNEP’s Online Library and Bookshop

Magazines

• Our Planet
• Industry and Environment
• Synergies