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    UN Organizations related to environment

    United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)


    • The rising pollution levels of the 1960s and 1970s prompted the international leadership to think about having
    laws and regulations in place for environmental concerns, along the likes of the International Labour Organisation
    (ILO), WHO etc.

    • These concerns were addressed at the 1972 United Nations Conference on Human Environment (also known as
    the Stockholm Conference). The Conference led to the adoption of the Stockholm Declaration (Declaration on the
    Human Environment).

    • The Conference also resulted in the formation of a management body for these concerns, which was later called
    the United Nations Environment Programme.

    • The UNEP is an international environmental authority engaged in establishing a global environmental agenda and
    promoting the efficient implementation of the environmental dimension of the United Nations Sustainable
    Development Programme.

    • UNEP was established on 5th june 1972 and Headquartered at Nairobi, Kenya.

    • The UNEP’s stated mission is to offer leadership and promote partnership in caring for the environment through
    informing, inspiring and enabling countries and peoples to enhance their quality of life without compromising
    that of future generations.

    The UNEP engages in developing global conventions on the environment and related issues. It hosts the
    secretariats of various conventions such as:

    ✓ Minamata Convention → Mercury


    ✓ United Nations Convention → Biological Diversity
    ✓ Convention on International Trade in → Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)
    ✓ Basel Convention → Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes
    ✓ Stockholm Convention → on Persistent Organic Pollutants
    ✓ Rotterdam Convention → on Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade
    ✓ Vienna Convention → Protection of the Ozone Layer
    ✓ Montreal Protocol → on reducing substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer
    ✓ Convention on Migratory Species

    • The UNEP’s governing body is called the United Nations Environment Assembly, which is said to be the world’s
    highest decision making body on the environment.

    • It meets once in two years to establish priorities for international environmental policies and develop
    international environmental law.

    • Formed in 2012, it is headed by a Bureau and its President.

    • The Bureau comprises ten environment ministers of various countries who all hold two-year terms, based on
    geographical rotation.

    • Currently, it has 193 member states (all UN member countries).

    ▪ Major Reports of UNEP: Emission Gap Report, Global Environment Outlook, Frontiers, Invest into Healthy Planet.

    ▪ Major Campaigns: Beat Pollution, UN75, World Environment Day, Wild for Life.

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