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UN Environment Programme (UNEP)
A regional agreement aims to save a tropical paradise in trouble
A couple of years ago, in the turquoise waters off the coastal village of Mahébourg in Mauritius, a Japanese oil tanker ran aground.
United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI)
G20 recommendations: advancing a nature-positive economy and just transition
The G20, comprising 19 countries and the European Union, collectively represents 85 per cent of the global economy, …
United Nations Environment Programme
As landscapes heal, Nepal’s most iconic animals stage a comeback
Zoological Society of London
A window of opportunity for climate change and biodiversity
World leaders must take advantage of a pivotal window of opportunity for forging a much-needed joined-up approach to …
All #treaty Press Releases
3 June 2024
Asean Centre for Biodiversity
Asean, UNDP launch marine conservation project
18 May 2023
Plastic Credit Exchange (PCX)
Plastic Credit Exchange (PCX) releases position paper: How plastic credits are supporting Global Plastics Treaty
20 November 2019
The Economist Intelligence Unit
The Asian economy will be 2.6% smaller by 2050 due to lack of climate resilience
3 July 2015
World Ocean Council
Governments advance new legally binding law of the sea agreement
6 May 2015
Greenpeace Southeast Asia
PH President Aquino told: Do not forget the Illegal Canadian wastes
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