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Encyclopedia: United Nations Environment Programme

The UN Environment Programme (or UNEP) coordinates United Nations environmental activities, assisting developing countries in implementing environmentally sound policies and encourages sustainable development through sound environmental practices. It was founded as a result of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in December 1972 and is headquartered in Gigiri, Nairobi, Kenya. UNEP also has six regional offices and various country offices.

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How to say "United Nations Environment Programme" in other languages:

	(Chinese)	联合国环境署
	(Japanese)	国際連合環境計画
	(German)	United Nations Environment Programme
	(Spanish)	Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente
	(French)	Programme des Nations unies pour l'environnement
	(Italian)	Programma delle Nazioni Unite per l'Ambiente

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Asian brown cloud

measured by the UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme) INODEX (Indian Ocean Experiment...

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List of World International Organizations

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Maurice Strong

Agency. In the early 1970s he was Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment. He then became the first Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme... of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), better known as the...

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Global Environment Facility

Projects GEF projects are managed by a set of Implementing Agencies, notably: United Nations Environment Programme United Nations Development Programme World Bank... The neutrality of this article is . The Global Environment Facility (GEF), established by donor...

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List of environmental organizations

Agency (EEA) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) UNEP (United Nations Environment... environment in different ways. Environmental organizations can be global, regional, national or local; they...) United States Earth First! National Audubon Society Nature's Classroom Rainforest Action Network Sea...

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Sustainable development

sustainable development had been catalogued. The United Nations Environment Programme position is... sustainable development were prevalent. Their popularization started with the United Nations Conference for Environment and Development (the Earth Summit) in 1992. The conference was prompted by the...

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Nicaraguan Institute of Natural Resources and the Environment

, Holland, Cuba, Mexico, the Organization of American States, the United Nations Environment Programme, and... The Nicaraguan Institute of Natural Resources and the Environment (IRENA) was created in 1979 by... of the study, planning, and management of the country's natural resources (which had been national...

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Earth Summit

United Nations Development Programme United Nations Environment Programme United Nations Industrial... The Earth Summit is the informal and best-known name for the United Nations Conference on..., was unprecedented for a United Nations conference, in terms of both its size and the scope of its...

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Ambassadors from the United States

P. Hall United Nations Environment Programme Nairobi, Kenya Johnnie Carson United Nations.... Austin UN Shirley Temple Black Czechoslovakia, Ghana, United Nations Barbara Bodine Yemen Corrinne.... Kennedy Sr. United Kingdom Alan Keyes United Nations Social and Economic Council Rufus King United...

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Depleted uranium

unexpectedly). Also DU disperses into the water, as mentioned in a United Nations Environment Programme...

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