Organisations
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable development within the United Nations system, and serves as an authoritative advocate for the global environment.
At WWF, we envision a world in which people and nature thrive – but we’ll only get there if we all play a role. WWF has teams of experts working in over 100 countries to protect the natural resources that sustain and inspire us: our forests, rivers, ocean, climate, food and wildlife.
The Division for Sustainable Development Goals (DSDG) in the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) acts as the Secretariat for the SDGs, providing substantive support and capacity-building for the goals and their related thematic issues, including water, energy, climate, oceans, urbanization, transport, science and technology, the Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR), partnerships and Small Island Developing States.
It monitors, analyzes and reports on the state of the global environment, assesses global and regional environmental policies and trends and provides early warning of emerging environmental threats. It spearheads UN-wide monitoring and reporting on the environmental dimension of the 2030 Agenda and SDGs.
Greenpeace exists because this fragile earth deserves a voice. It needs solutions. It needs change. It needs action. In 1971, our founders set sail to an island in the Arctic. Their mission? To stop a nuclear bomb. It was a journey that would spark a movement and make history.
We campaign on today’s most urgent environmental and social issues. We challenge the current model of economic and corporate globalization, and promote solutions that will help to create environmentally sustainable and socially just societies.
CAN is a network of NGOs working on climate change from around the world. These members are autonomous and independent. Many of these members have their own forms of organization and their own national or regional rules.
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) was established on the eve of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit to help tackle our planet’s most pressing environmental problems. The GEF Partnership recently agreed to a new direction in its work to achieve greater results and help to meet rising challenges.
Breathe Life mobilizes communities to reduce the impact of air pollution on our health & climate. Our growing network includes 70 cities, regions, and countries; reaching over 288.8 million citizens.
UN Environment launched Clean Seas (#CleanSeas on social media) in February 2017, with the aim of engaging governments, the general public and the private sector in the fight against marine plastic pollution
News/Articles
- Amazon deforestation reaches highest level in more than a decade
- Our Planet: The story behind the walruses
- West African women say no to fishmeal
- Climate Calamity?
- On the frontline of hurricane disaster
- What’s in your bathroom? The hidden plastics in your beauty products
- A new wave of air pollution crises: what can be done?
- South Korea and China to strengthen cooperation to reduce fine dust prollution
- Tackling declining food production and poverty in populous western Kenya
- Banking on nature: a Mexican city adapts to climate change
- Boxed water isn’t the environmental solution they want you to think it is
- China companies worst in Asia for environmental sustainability, Hong Kong firms fare best—report
Videos
- WWF – together possible
- How microplastics affect your health
- Rebirth of the Environmental Movement: Emily Hunter at TEDxUTSC
- From our first breath
- Protecting the Ghost: Snow Leopard Day 2019
- Greenhouse Effect
- Life Of An Environmental Activist | Generation Activism
- Sarajevo Air – Air pollution in the Balkans
- The 3R’s: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle
- A World of Reuse: For the Bath
The Environmental Society 