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Disasters and conflicts: Minimizing environmental threats - UNEP 2015 Annual Report
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2016)In its work on disasters and conflicts, which aims to minimize threats to human well-being from environmental degradation, UNEP focuses on achieving results in two areas: Risk reduction – Improving countries’ ability to ... -
Environment under review: Promoting evidence-based decision making through integrated knowledge - UNEP 2015 Annual Report
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2016)To keep the environment under review, UNEP focuses on bridging the gap between the producers and users of environmental information, better linking science to policy. To do so, the organization focuses on three areas: ... -
Maurice Strong (1929 – 2015) - UNEP 2015 Annual Report
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2016)Late last year, the world lost one of its greats when Maurice Strong, the founding Executive Director of UNEP, passed at the age of 86 – just days before the Paris Agreement that is, in many ways, a legacy of his life of ...