UNEP is dedicated to equipping MEA Focal Points, experts, organizations, and stakeholders with cutting-edge tools to drive environmental progress and promote a healthier planet.
Recognizing the challenges posed by fragmented and complex intergovernmental negotiations, UNEP has developed digital solutions to provide comprehensive, intelligent, and easily accessible environmental legal data. The flagship platform, InforMEA—the UN Information Portal on MEAs was created to enhance capacity-building and deepen understanding of the global environmental legal framework for Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs), Secretariats and UNEP.
This core initiative has since been complemented with a suite of associated platforms, including DaRT, LEAP, The Judicial Portal and ECOLEX, focused on specific data types to cater to diverse audiences, such as MEA focal points, Montevideo focal points, national reporters, and the judiciary. We are committed to interoperability of information and knowledge systems among MEAs and other organizations, a key principle in the Secretary General’s Data Policy in overcoming misaligned standards and mixed-quality data.
UNEP is working across the UN system with the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA) and the multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs), in collaboration with the private sector and civil society organizations among other stakeholders, to meet international and national environmental commitments for sustainable development. More on UNEP partnerships.
The work of UNEP on Environmental Information tools is led by the Law Division under the Collective Intelligence Unit