CAMLR Convention | UNEP - UN Environment Programme
May 28, 2024 · Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources A. Overview Antarctica is surrounded by an unbroken and dynamic body of water known as the …
State of the marine environment in Antarctica - UNEP
Sep 18, 1990 · State of the marine environment in Antarctica 18 September 1990 Human activities have had a major effect on the balance of the Antarctic marine ecosystem, this can …
Ozone layer recovery is on track, helping avoid global warming
NAIROBI, 9 January 2023 – The ozone layer is on track to recover within four decades, with the global phaseout of ozone-depleting chemicals already benefitting efforts to mitigate climate …
About the United Nations Environment Programme - UNEP
Mar 28, 2025 · The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the leading global authority on the environment. UNEP’s mission is to inspire, inform, and enable nations and …
Record heat sends sea ice into retreat, worrying scientists - UNEP
Apr 12, 2022 · The temperature at Vostok Weather Station in the central part of Antarctica in March normally averages -53°C. But between March 16 and March 20, around the time the ice …
Rebuilding the ozone layer: how the world came together for the …
Sep 15, 2021 · At that time, they didn’t know the scale of the problem. But in 1985, a hole was confirmed in the ozone layer over Antarctica. The world’s natural sun shield, which protects …
Could microbes, locked in Arctic ice for millennia, unleash a
Jan 7, 2025 · In the unusually hot summer of 2016, a bacterium that causes anthrax killed more than 2,500 reindeer in Siberia’s remote Yamal Peninsula, according to one study. Normally …
North America | UNEP - UN Environment Programme
Apr 10, 2025 · UNEP’s North America Office works to spur collective action in the U.S. and Canada to address the triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, …
Thirty years on, what is the Montreal Protocol doing to protect
Nov 15, 2019 · The Montreal Protocol to protect the Earth’s ozone layer is to date the only United Nations environmental agreement to be ratified by every country in the world. It is also one of …
An open invitation from UN Environment Patron of Oceans, Lewis …
Jun 25, 2018 · Lewis Pugh, UN Environment’s Patron of the Oceans is the personification of inspiration. To raise awareness about the state of our oceans, Pugh has been swimming in the …