United Nations Environment Programme
The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) is in charge of the United Nations environmental activities, helping developing countries in making environmentally sound policies and encouraging sustainable development through sound environmental practices. It began as a result of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in June 1972 and has its headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. UNEP also has six regional offices and other country offices.
 United Nations Environment Programme | |
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| Org type | Programme |
| Head | Inger Andersen  Denmark (since 2019) |
| Status | Active |
| Established | 1972 |
| Headquarters | Nairobi |
| Website | www.unep.org |
UNEP has helped to develop guidelines and treaties on issues such as the international trade in potentially harmful chemicals, transboundary air pollution, and contamination of international waterways.
The World Meteorological Organization and the UNEP established the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1988. UNEP is also one of several Implementing Agencies for the Global Environment Facility (GEF).
United Nations Environment Programme Media
UNEP Conference on Ozone Layer in The Hague, 1988
UNEP Executive Director Inger Andersen at the UN Biodiversity conference, 2022
Maurice Strong, shortly after having rewarded the Freedom from Want Award in Middelburg, the Netherlands, 29th of May 2010.
Mostafa Kamal Tolba.
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Klaus Töpfer.
Achim Steiner during the 10th Plenary of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO-X) in Geneva, on 17 January 2014.
Erik Solheim
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Inger Andersen (environmentalist, 2010, cropped)
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