#un environment programme

[raffaellopalandri]

World Environment Day

Today is World Environment Day, the day Held annually on 5 June since it was established in 1973, World Environment Day is the largest global platform for environmental public outreach. In 2023, its theme will focus on finding long-lasting, effective solutions to plastic pollution under the campaign #BeatPlasticPollution. This year’s celebrations are hosted by Côte D’Ivoire. Join millions…

[environmentday]

From forests to drylands to farmlands, humanity’s existence depends on ecosystems.

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Yet, they are reaching a tipping point – and it is up to all of us to restore our land & soil.

Wednesday June 5th is World Environment Day. UN Environment Programme

[wmhd]

4 Ways the planetary crisis impacts our mental health.

Climate change, noise, and air and chemical pollution impact our mental well-being. However, a healthy environment can uplift us. This #WorldMentalHealthDay, explore these four environmental issues and how nature and #ClimateAction offer solutions.

[dayofcombattingsandandduststorms]

Highlight the Impacts of Sand and Dust Storms on Oceans.

Each year, an estimated two billion tonnes of dust is raised into the atmosphere. According to the report, Impacts of Sand and Dust Storms on Oceans: A Scientific Environmental Assessment for Policy Makers, even the smallest elements can have substantive effects on ecosystem functioning – and on the Earth system, at large.

Facts & Figures

Approximately 2 million tonnes of sand and dust enter the atmosphere annually.

SDS mostly occur in dry and desert regions, but can be carried long distances to impact regions much further away.

Dust particles, circulated by SDS, provide nutrients to marine ecosystems, but can also contribute to coral mortality and hurricane formation.

SDS can cause respiratory diseases, heart disorders, and eye and skin irritation and can also spread other diseases, such as meningitis.

Aviation and ground transportation can be disrupted by SDS.

Agricultural practices and productivity can be impacted by SDS, which can also contribute to desertification processes.

Sustainable water and land management practices can decrease the impacts of SDS.

Source: UN Environment Management Group

[worldfisheriesday]

FAO and UNEP are working together to reduce plastic pollution, promote sustainable uses of Oceans resources and combat the uses of hardly hazardous pesticides.

WORKING FOR #ZEROHUNGER.

[environmentinwarprotectionday]

Focus on Conflicts involving natural resources.

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has found that over the last 60 years, at least 40 percent of all internal conflicts have been linked to the exploitation of natural resources, whether high-value resources such as timber, diamonds, gold and oil, or scarce resources such as fertile land and water. Conflicts involving natural resources have also been found to be twice as likely to relapse.

[worldozoneday]

Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2022.

Providing highlights on the health of the ozone layer in the meantime, the full Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2022 Executive Summary report will be available soon.

[worldyouthskillday]

Highlight the critical role of higher education in achieving sustainable development.

The Higher Education Sustainability Initiative (HESI) is a partnership between several United Nations entities and the higher education community, currently chaired by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) and the Sulitest Association - a non-profit organization and online platform aimed at improving sustainability literacy for all. Other United Nations partners include UNESCO, United Nations Environment Programme, United Nations Global Compact’s Principles for Responsible Management Education initiative, United Nations University, UN-HABITAT, UNCTAD, UNITAR, United Nations Office for Partnerships and United Nations Academic Impact.

The Vision Statement by the Secretary-General on Transforming Education, "Transforming Education: an urgent political imperative for our collective future" – the formal outcome of the Transforming Education Summit held in 2022 – notes that education is a great enabler, but today, in many cases, it is also the great divider. The Vision Statement further notes that education is in crisis and requires our immediate, mid-term and longer-term responses including a fundamental rethinking of the purpose and content of education, grounded in two principles of a new social contract for education, namely ensuring the right to quality education throughout life and strengthening education as a public endeavor and a common good. Each year, HESI organizes a global forum as a special event to the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) – UN’s main platform for the follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at the global level - to highlight the critical role of higher education in achieving sustainable development. In 2023, HLPF (10-19 July 2023, New York) will be held under the theme “Accelerating the recovery from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and the full implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at all levels”. It will also review in-depth Goals 6 on clean water and sanitation, 7 on affordable and clean energy, 9 on industry, innovation, and infrastructure, 11 on sustainable cities and communities, and 17 on partnerships for the Goals, and include 41 Voluntary National Reviews by member States on their implementation of the 2030 Agenda.The HESI 2023 Global Forum, which will be held on 17 July 2023 as an in-person event at UNHQ, will place a particular focus on understanding the challenges and opportunities to accelerate the recovery from COVID-19 and the full implementation of the 2030 Agenda at all levels, in line with the theme of HLPF in 2023.The Forum aims to:

Provide a deeper understanding of the challenges and opportunities in higher education to accelerate the recovery from COVID-19 and the full implementation of the 2030 Agenda at all levels.

Build a higher education sector that is accessible to all and leaves no one behind.

Highlight and boost key higher education initiatives that drive implementation of the 2030 Agenda through education, teaching, and learning - particularly around SDGs under review at HLPF (Goals 6 on clean water and sanitation, 7 on affordable and clean energy, 9 on industry, innovation, and infrastructure, 11 on sustainable cities and communities, and 17 on partnerships for the Goals,).

Spotlight the levers of sector transformation, including cross-institutional partnerships or evolving practices in higher education quality metrics, academic publications, or increased demand for green jobs.

Convene an evolving and action-oriented conversation on the critical role of higher education in achieving sustainable development.

[womenindiplomacyday]

Women, Natural Resources and Peacebuilding.

The report Women and Natural Resources: Unlocking the Peacebuilding Potential PDFurges governments and the international community to invest in the political and economic engagement of women in natural resource management and to end the entrenched discrimination that women face in accessing, owning and using critical natural resources in sustainable and productive ways. 

Published jointly by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Entity for Gender Equity and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office (PBSO), this report draws on field research from over 20 different countries and some 200 academic sources and institutions.

Women and Natural Resources:  Unlocking the Peacebuilding Potential.

[madamepestilence]

Just as a reminder as I've just noticed myself - arab.org has more pages to support on

In case you're unfamiliar with how this site works, it confirms ad revenue via your clicks, which allows them to donate money to various funds

These go to:

Children -> UNICEF (United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund)

Fight Poverty -> UNDP (United Nations Development Programme)

Environment -> Greenpeace MENA (Middle East and North Africa)

Palestine -> UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency [for Palestine Refugees in the Near East])

Refugees -> UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees)

Women -> UN Women

Do more with your daily clicks! You can help each one once per individual (perhaps per IP address?) per day, letting you help out with six things at once?

US-specific advice for helping Palestine below cut.

Side note I'm keeping beneath the cut since it's relevant to US folks only: if you're really determined to help Palestine, vote for Dr. Cornel West, Ph.D. for President of the United States.

He's the most openly vocal about a free Palestine and is the only candidate who has demonstrably shown he is the most committed and prepared to immediately cease US support to Israel.

Joe Biden isn't going to cave if he gets re-elected. We all know that. Voting third party is a lot less risky than you've been taught - the two party system can replace one or both parties with new parties if they lose public favour.

We have both the people and the ability to unseat the Democratic party and install Socialism, and between Socialism and Republicans, Socialism is going to lock in place immediately and become the dominant political force in America.

Cornel West's Platform

Cornel West's Volunteer Events

Cornel West's Ballot Access Tracker and Ballot Access Plans

Tumblr thread I have of Primary/Caucus polling dates in the US (includes US territories)

Not on your Primary/Caucus ballot? Write-in, "Cornel West," on your ballot, or urge your Caucus representatives to do the same.

In a state where it's difficult for Independent candidates to get ballot access? Dr. Cornel West, Ph.D. thought ahead and has created a new party for those states called the Justice for All Party.

(Addendum: Claudia de la Cruz is not a viable alternative. The Party for Socialism and Liberation has a Conservative 5th Column and has frequent issues with discrimination.)

Free Palestine. Vote for Cornel West.

[environmentday]

Join #GenerationRestoration and millions around the globe to take action to restore our land & soil!

“Land restoration, desertification, and drought resilience.” World Environment Day 2024. The theme will focus on land restoration among others to address the triple planetary crisis: the crisis of climate change, the crisis of nature and biodiversity loss, and the crisis of pollution and waste.

[eurydike-on-media]

United Nations Environment Programme’s Instagram needs to do better.

Maybe you've come across the UNEP before, but to quote them, they are "the leading global authority on the environment" and their "mission is to inspire, inform, and enable nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations" [1], and indeed their Instagram page compliments this to an extent.

They do share inspirational stories and inform with recent data. However, they completely lack brand identity, leading to their posts feeling inconsistent. There is no instantaneous recognizable detail to their individual posts that immediately informs you that this is the UNEP, a reliable source for environmental information. In an era of doom scrolling and fake news, shouldn't the UNEP do what little effort they can to ensure their over two million followers are at least registering their posts to be from them?

In the below screenshot of their most recent posts (as of 9 June 2023), how many different fonts do they use across posts? How is it that World Seaweed Day and World Food Safety Day look wildly different as if created by different accounts? It is likely that the team working on marine information differs from the food safety team, however that is where brand identity must unite. The topics at hand are already a vast range, should there not be a consistency to pull it together?

I'd love to see this Instagram page improve it's brand identity given that the UNEP does incredibly important work which may be going unrecognized and under-appreciated as such. Strengthening the instant recognition that a post is from the UNEP would greatly benefit them in that their audience may actually pause to read their posts if they know the source is such a reliable and globally unified one.

Finally, I'd like to acknowledge that their website has a beautiful brand identity within the UN aesthetic, so my belief is not that they have no awareness of brand identity, they simply have not found a way to pull from that insight and extrapolate it towards their instagram page.

Ideally, this is the sort of project I would like to work on in the future as a (science) communicator. In essence curating content and creating an identifiable brand in everything from font to writing style such that important messages may be received well by the audience. It is a shame to be overlooked over something as adjustable as aesthetics.

[biglisbonnews]

UNDP seeks $550 million for 31 projects in Türkiye aimed at restoring livelihoods, public services and cultural heritage Country: Türkiye Source: UN Development Programme “The scope of the destruction is unprecedented,” said UNDP Resident Representative Louisa Vinton. “This is why we expect equally unprecedented commitments from global donors.” https://reliefweb.int/report/turkiye/recovery-and-reconstruction-after-2023-earthquakes-turkiye-undp-project-catalogue-entr

[internationaldayofzerowaste]

Foster the environmentally sound management of waste - 2023 High-level meeting on Zero Waste.

Zero-waste initiatives can foster sound waste management and minimize and prevent waste. This contributes to reducing pollution, mitigating the climate crisis, conserving biodiversity, enhancing food security and improving human health.

The United Nations Environment Programme and UN-Habitat will facilitate the observance of the Day. All Member States, organizations of the United Nations system and relevant stakeholders are encouraged to implement zero-waste initiatives at local, regional, subnational and national levels.

The President of the United Nations General Assembly will convene a one-day high-level meeting on Zero Waste on Thursday, 30 March 2023 at 10 am EDT, in the General Assembly Hall.

The meeting will provide a platform to exchange the experiences and success stories of Member States in developing and implementing solid waste management solutions and technologies, including innovative projects and programmes such as local and national zero-waste initiatives to foster the environmentally sound management of waste.

[worldcitiesday]

Develop and implement policies; policies which support low-carbon, resource efficient and green growth as well as policies on mitigation and adaptation to climate change.

In an increasingly urbanized world, UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and our partners support cities across the world in addressing environmental impacts and integrating the environment into cities’ long-term strategic planning. We focus on buildings and infrastructure, transport, air pollution, waste and water management, biodiversity and ecosystems.