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

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)