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Global Gateway: EU and Member States launch global Team Europe Initiative on Deforestation-free Value Chains

The UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) has applauded the launch of eagerly anticipated recommendations to help businesses and financial institutions around the world...

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) recognizes the growing global interest in seaweed farming as a potentially scalable ocean-based solution to climate change that may provide environmental...

As we celebrate Biodiversity Day 2023, Jemima Brennen, Associate Communications Officer in UNEP-WCMC's Nature Economy team, explores the vital links between biodiversity and global...

As part of the recent information made available on the Knowledge Centre for Biodiversity (KCBD) website, a new dataset covering EU-funded research projects on biodiversity and trade has been...

A global circular economy will allow us to fulfil people's needs with only 70% of the materials we now extract and use—moving human activity back within...

The world production of marine macroalgae, or seaweed, has more than tripled since the turn of the millennium, increasing from 10.6 million tonnes in 2000 to 32.4 million tonnes in 2018. Increased...

The ninth edition of IRENA’s series, Renewable energy and jobs: Annual review 2022, produced in collaboration with the International Labour Organization (ILO), provides the latest estimates of renewable...

This edition draws on five years of the Circularity Gap Report analysis to show the power of the circular economy to equitably fulfil our global needs and wants, but with radically fewer...

This briefing 'Palm Oil Production, Consumption and Trade Patterns' provides an analysis of recent palm oil production, consumption and trade patterns and considers whether the sharp increase...