UNEP
United Nations Environment Programme, UNEP was established in 1972 as a result of the first UN environment conference in Stockholm. The UNEP is headquartered in Nairobi.
Activities
The UNEP has played an important role in developing international agreements and national environmental instruments.
The 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
- integrating environmental protection with economic development.
IPCC
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change. IPCC was established by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in 1988. Its initial task was outlined in UN General Assembly Resolution 43/53 of 6 December 1988. The objective of the IPCC is to provide governments at all levels with scientific information that they can use to develop climate policies. IPCC reports are a key input into international climate change negotiations.
More on UNEP
- UNEP.org. Background information, news, full text reports, publications and links to important environmental instruments.
- Global Environment Outlook (GEO) is a broad survey of environmental issues is published in cooperation with Stockholm Environment Institute.
- Atlas of Our Changing Environment contains comparisons of satellite images from the last decades.
- World Environment Situation Room. Data, information and knowledge on the environment.
- InforMEA - United Nations Information Portal on Multilateral Environmental Agreements, COP decisions, news, meetings, membership, national focal points and reports from MEAs.
- UNEP.net - the United Nations Environment Network - a global website to environmental information.
- Environmental Rights and Governance. International environment law.
- ECOLEX is a gateway to environmental law providing information on treaties, court decisions, legislation and relevant literature. It is operated jointly by UNEP, FAO and IUCN.
- UNEP and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
- UN Documentation : environment by UN-library, New York.
Key UN documents
- UN Charter in Swedish | in English
- UN System Chart
- Yearbook of the United Nations
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Swedish | in English
- Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action
- Statue of the International Court of Justice
UN documents and publications in catalogues and databases
- United Nations Digital Library. UN official documents and open access publications, UN maps, UN voting data and speeches.
- UN iLibrary. UN publications online covering different topics.
- ODS. UN documents published from 1993 onward and scanned documents published between 1946 and 1993 in the official languages of the UN.
- Daily list of documents (ODS). Documents published for the day, with full text links, can be found in the United Nations full text database ODS.
- UNBIS Thesaurus is a multilingual database of the controlled vocabulary used to describe UN documents.
- Index to proceedings is an annual bibliographic guide to the proceedings and documentation of the major UN organs. The index includes:
- a list of all documents
- a comprehensive subject index
- an index to speeches
- a voting chart of resolutions
- United Nations Documents Index (in United Nations Digital Library). References to all documents by subject area are published. A collection of indexes is held by the Dag Hammarskjöld and Law Library, Uppsala, Sweden and the UN Library in New York and the UN library in Geneva.