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The world has mismanaged its freshwater reserves for decades, hampering progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).   

Lead may be present in everything from cookware and cosmetics to paint and plumbing.

They pollute the air. They warm the planet. They prevent crops from growing. Overall, super pollutants are a pretty nasty group of chemical compounds – and unfortunately, they’re all around us. 

Nairobi, 1 October 2024 – One year after its adoption in Bonn, the Global Framework on Chemicals today launched its first

How do you make the people of the world healthier? For the longest time, the answer was to treat the myriad ailments that plague the human race.  

07 September, Abidjan - African Environment Ministers meeting in Abidjan have called for the establishment of a legally binding protocol on drought management under the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (

Nairobi, 7 September 2024 – The world marked the fifth annual International Day of Clean Air for blue skies today with calls for investment in clean air solutions now, as a

For billions of people across the developing world, particularly children and women, mealtime starts by firing up a kerosene stove, lighting a charcoal grill or setting some logs ablaze.  

CCAC launches an Air Quality Management Exchange Platform (AQMx) following UNEA-6 resolution  to i

Air pollution costs the global economy a staggering US$8.1 trillion every year, or 6.1 per cent of the world's gross domestic product.

Some 40 million people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo rely on the Congo Basin – home to the world’s second-largest tropical rainforest – for food, health, livelihoods and ecosystem services. 

For the people of East and Southeast Asia air pollution has become an all too familiar sight.  

When a group of Olympic triathletes plunged into the Seine River last month, it marked a watershed moment for the iconic French waterway. 

Later this year, negotiators will gather in the Republic of Korea for a fifth round of discussions aimed at developing a legally bind

In the small coastal town of Guapi, Colombia, Mary Luz Ante Orobio is meeting with a group she calls “the unstoppable women.”  

When truck driver Salim Awadh travelled to Mombasa, Kenya, in 2021 for a course on fuel-efficient driving, he had been hauling freight across East Africa for nearly two decades. 

Geneva, 22 June 2024 – Governments gathered in Geneva have advanced in the process to establish a science-policy panel on chemicals, waste and pollution prevention, agreeing to continue negotiations to further develop the proposal

Nairobi, 18 June 2024 – The environmental impacts of the war in Gaza are unprecedented, according to a

Geneva, 13 June 2024 - Amid mounting concern about the health and environmental impacts of air pollution, a new report from the World Meteorological Organization points out the potential for low-cost sensor systems to assess levels

Albania, Burkina Faso, India, Montenegro and Uganda have joined forces to halt mercury pollution from the healthcare sector Mercury harms human health and the environment $134-million initiative will support a holistic appro