United Nations Environment Program

Mission

To provide leadership and encourage partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations.

UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME (UNEP)

UNEP is the United Nations system’s designated entity for addressing environmental issues at the global and regional level. Its mandate is to coordinate the development of environmental policy consensus by keeping the global environment under review and bringing emerging issues to the attention of governments and the international community for action.

 UNEP’S RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:

• Promoting international cooperation in the field of the environment and recommending appropriate policies.
• Monitoring the status of the global environment and gathering and disseminating environmental information.
• Catalyzing environmental awareness and action to address major environmental threats among governments, the private sector and civil society.
• Facilitating the coordination of UN activities on matters concerned with the environment, and ensuring, through cooperation, liaison and participation, that their activities take environmental considerations into account.
• Developing regional programmes for environmental sustainability.
• Helping, upon request, environment ministries and other environmental authorities, in particular in developing countries and countries with economies in transition, to formulate and implement environmental policies.
• Providing country-level environmental capacity building and technology support.
• Helping to develop international environmental law, and providing expert advice on the development and use of environmental concepts and instruments.