Pretoria, South Africa, 25 - 26 November 2025 - Governments from across the Southern African Development Community (SADC), together with regional and international partners, met in Pretoria to strengthen legal and regulatory approaches to the environmentally sound management of electronic waste (e-waste), one of the world's fastest-growing waste streams.

As the use of electrical and electronic equipment continues to increase

Santiago de Chile, 30 July 2025 – The Ministry of Environment of Chile, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and the NDC Partnership held the workshop “Advancing the Implementation of Chile’s Framework Law on Climate Change” to present the results of a project supporting the country in meeting its climate commitments. This initiative is part of UNEP’s Montevideo Environmental

On the 18th and 19th of March 2025, UNEP Law Division, in collaboration with the UNEP Ecosystems Division hosted a two-part webinar series on the Interlinkages Between the Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ Agreement)

Ebolowa, Cameroon, 16 - 21 September 2024 – Cameroon has taken another significant step towards revising its environmental legislation through a national workshop to revise the country's Framework Environmental Law (Law No. 96/12 of 5 August 1996). The workshop, jointly organized by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), formed part

2024 Asia Environmental Enforcement Recognition of Excellence

Transboundary environmental crime presents a serious threat in Asia. Illegal trade in wildlife undermines conservation efforts, harms economies, devastates livelihoods, and compromises ecosystems on which humans depend. It also takes place on the routes between Asia and Africa, Europe and Latin America at significant scale. The Asia region is as well one of

The secretariat of the Green Customs Initiative, in partnership with the joint secretariat of the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal, the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade, and the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (BRS secretariat), is organizing

Following the online segment of the First Global Meeting of National Focal Points to the Fifth Montevideo Programme for the Development and Periodic Review of Environmental Law (Montevideo Programme V), hosted from 2 - 4 June 2021, the in-person (hybrid) segment of the Global Meeting will take place at the United Nations Office at Nairobi from 6 - 9 June

The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, in collaboration with UNEP, has launched the Peer Review Network of Global Climate Litigation as part of continuing efforts to update and maintain the Global Climate Change Litigation database. The Peer Review Network includes practitioners and scholars who will act as “national rapporteurs” on climate change litigation in their countries. The Network

From 6 to 9 June 2022, UNEP will host the in-person/hybrid segment of the First Global Meeting of National Focal Points for the Montevideo Programme V, at the United Nations Office at Nairobi. This segment follows the first part of the First Global Meeting of National Focal Points, which was held online in June 2021. Within this context, the