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9 March 2022:

Pacific countries made major strides towards realising the vision of the Cleaner Pacific 2025 today, with the launch of ISLANDS Pacific – a 14-nation initiative aiming to avoid the release of 28,000 tonnes of marine litter, safely dispose of 720 tonnes of contaminated material, and reduce the...

UNEP: Joshua Wowo discovered and secured 1,400 boxes of DDT in Papua New Guinea’s East New Britain Province. Now he waits for the day when his township’s toxic timebomb will finally be defused.

When Joshua Wowo was a child, his uncle would take him on rambling walks through the lush...

It’s sunny in the conference room with old wooden floors in Nukus. This city was once the capital of the abundant river delta region south of the Aral Sea. Now the capital lies in a dry desert landscape and the almost 2 million inhabitants of this autonomous region, Karakalpakstan, have been adapting to a lack of water for decades. The evaluation specialist from Seoul asks a female farmer from Bozatau district, sitting opposite her, “why would her husband be unwilling for her to work for the village council”? The other farmers burst out in laughter, and the woman replies, chuckling, “If you’re asking that, then how can I even start to explain!”. 

Tuesday, February 22, 2022 – The Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) and the State Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan for Ecology and Environmental Protection (SCEEP) held an official ceremony for the opening of GGGI’s new country office in Uzbekistan. The opening event was attended by high-level government officials and development partners. Keynote speakers for the event were H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon (President and Chair of GGGI), Ms. Helena McLeod, (Deputy Director-General of GGGI), H.E. Mr. Naimovich Oblomuradov Narzullo, (Chairman of SCEEP), and Dr. Aaron Russell (Country Representative of GGGI Uzbekistan). 

College students from around the world are taking part in this global competition to promote carbon-neutral construction by creating ‘healthy, comfortable and beautiful buildings’ with eco-friendly materials and technologies.

The Nigeria Green Tagging Banking Review supports a strong monitoring and disclosure framework that would allow financial institutions in the country to accurately and transparently report their financial footprint to financial regulators. Developed as part of the Green Finance Platform’s GEF Aligning Finance Policies project, it includes scenario-based analyses of loans portfolios from three Nigerian commercial banks and assesses the percentage exposure of their portfolios to low-carbon and high-carbon assets based on established taxonomy.

GO4SDGs is part of the Stockholm+50 Coordination Team whereby it organized five regional consultations that happened during the month of April and May in the lead-up to the well-anticipated global meeting Stockholm+50: A healthy planet for the prosperity of all – our responsibility, our opportunity. The regional consultations brought different stakeholders to share their insights, initiatives, and best practices in their expertise to provide solutions to address complex issues that require urgent attention.

Since January 2022, the Green Finance Platform, through the Global Environment Facility-funded Aligning Finance Policies project, is working with six countries – China, India, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Mongolia and Nigeria – to progress their sustainable finance roadmaps.

Recipe of Change is a brand-new food Waste campaign by the UNEP West Asia regional office.

In 2021, the GGKP Expert Group on Natural Capital positioned itself as a strong partner in mainstreaming natural capital approaches in infrastructure and development finance, particularly in Africa. With its natural capital gap methodology and its expansion into assessing financial investment needs in filling the gap, the group also gained a strong momentum on the importance of investment in natural capital for sustainable development.