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Bash the Trash performs at the fair. Photo by Janie Cangelosi

UN Green Fair highlights community-level sustainability

4 June 2016
General News

The United Nations played host to a Green Fair this week at headquarters in New York.

Local and international groups came together to showcase their contribution to sustainability.

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General Assembly President John Ashe (left) with UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner at the closing press conference of the Global South-South Development Expo in Nairobi, Kenya.
UNEP

UN South-South forum wraps up with over $450 million pledged for greener development

1 November 2013
More than $450 million was pledged between investors, green businesses, Governments and other parties at the United Nations-organized Global South-South Development Expo in Nairobi, where hundreds of participants spent this week exchanging ideas, solutions and technologies developed in the global South.
Cabinet Secretary Anne Waiguru of Kenya, (centre), and UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson cut the ribbon at the opening of the UN South-South Expo. UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner is at left.
UNEP

At UN conference, countries share green solutions for development challenges

28 October 2013
Representatives from some 150 countries today gathered at the headquarters of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in Nairobi, Kenya, to tackle development challenges and discuss ways to harness environmentally-friendly solutions developed in the global South.
Asia-Pacific’s share of world domestic material consumption grew from under 25 percent in 1975 to over 53 per cent by 2005

New UN report calls on Asia-Pacific nations to transition to green economy

19 September 2011
A new United Nations report calls on countries in Asia and the Pacific to embark on a ‘green’ industrial revolution that takes advantage of improvements in resource efficiency so that they can prosper in the 21st century.

New industrial revolution needed to avert ‘planetary catastrophe’ – UN report

5 July 2011
Humanity is close to breaching the sustainability of Earth, and needs a technological revolution greater and faster than the industrial revolution to avoid “a major planetary catastrophe,” a new United Nations report says.

World metal recycling ‘discouragingly low,’ says new UN report

26 May 2011
Despite the obvious benefits to the environment, industry and consumers themselves, metal recycling rates worldwide are discouragingly low, according to a new report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
Construction workers relocate Peace Bell in preparation of the implementation of CMP in 2009

UN official projects Headquarters renovation will finish within budget

31 March 2011
Nearly three years into the major renovation of the United Nations Headquarters complex in New York, the project is on track to being completed within its almost $2 billion budget, the official overseeing the overhaul said today.

Delegates to UN forum stress key role of ‘green economy’ to sustainable development

24 February 2011
A transition to a low-carbon “green economy” is crucial for sustainable development, environment ministers from across the world stressed today, concluding the gathering of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
Green Economy

Investing in 'green economy' can boost growth, reduce poverty – UN report

21 February 2011
Investing around $1.3 trillion – or two per cent of global gross domestic product (GDP) – into ten key sectors can kick-start a transition towards a low-carbon, resource-efficient 'green economy' that can also help reduce poverty, says a new United Nations report launched today.
UNEP Executive Director, Achim Steiner

UN environment chief calls on G20 to build on previous pledges of green growth

9 November 2010
As world leaders gather in the Republic of Korea for the latest meeting of the Group of 20 (G20) major economies, the head of the United Nations environmental agency is calling on them to build on their previous pledge to move towards a green and more sustainable recovery from the financial crisis with more concrete action.