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UNEP - United Nations Environment Programme
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United Nations Environment Programme, UNEP - was established in 1972 as a result of the first UN environment conference in Stockholm.
The UNEP's activities are focused to a large degree on initiating co-operation with other global, regional and national institutions in trying to elevate the importance of environmental issues and integrate environmental protection with economic development. It has played an important role in developing international agreements and national environmental instruments.
The UNEP is headquartered in Nairobi.
Documentation
The UNEP official web site provides background information, news, full text reports and publications and links to important environmental instruments.
UNEP Annual Report offers a valuable overview of UNEP activities. Full text reports for recent years can be accessed through UNEP official web site.
A summary of the work of the United Nations Environment Programme for a given year with references to essential documents can be accessed through the Yearbook of the United Nations, Part three, Environment and Human Settlements. A complete collection of yearbooks is held by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, Uppsala, and the Libraries at UN Headquarters in New York and Geneva. Since October 2008 the complete full text collection of
The United Nations Yearbooks is available online at http://unyearbook.un.org/.
News and debating articles are contained in the journal Our Planet. A full text version is available at the UNEP official web site.
A broad survey of environmental issues is published in cooperation with Stockholm Environment Institute: Global Environment Outlook. A full text version is posted at the UNEP official web site.
A new atlas One Planet Many People: Atlas of Our Changing Environment can be retrieved from the UNEP official web page. It contains comparisons of satellite images from the last decades, revealing environmental degradation and other drastic changes.
Multilateral environment agreements (MEAs) are posted at the UNEP official web site, Environmental Convention Links.
Databases and Indexes
The UNEP has created databases for environmental issues.
They can be accessed through the UNEP official web site:
UNEP.Net - the United Nations Environment Network - a global web portal to environmental information.
GRID is a database of research institutions collecting environmental data from all over the world.
References to UNEP documents from 1979 onwards with links to full texts for recent years can be accessed through
the United Nations online catalogue - UNBISnet.