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Amid global tensions and shifting national priorities, multilateralism is undoubtedly facing challenges. Even so, 2025 was a year in which nations showed that environmental multilateralism is the beacon that rises high above the fog of geopolitical difference to rally the world in united action.

The report looks at what it would take to limit overshoot to about 0.3°C, with a 66 per cent chance, and return to 1.5°C by 2100. This scenario would require cutting 2030 emissions by 26 percent and 2035 emissions by 46 percent compared with 2019 levels.

Since its initial articulation in the early 1970s, the sphere of legislative and judicial practices regarding the right to a healthy environment (R2HE) has evolved substantially. This report identifies and examines trends and developments in the interpretation of the R2HE over a decade (2015-2025) through an analysis of the advancement of the right in thirty jurisdictions, including international and regional human rights bodies.

Last year brought both successes and disappointments in global efforts to tackle the triple planetary crisis: the crisis of climate change; the crisis of nature and biodiversity loss and desertification; and the crisis of pollution and waste.

UNEP’s Emissions Gap Report 2024: No more hot air … please! is the 15th edition in a series that brings together many of the world’s top climate scientists to look at future trends in greenhouse gas emissions and provide potential solutions to the challenge of global warming. As climate impacts intensify globally, the report finds that nations must deliver dramatically stronger ambition and action in the next round of Nationally Determined Contributions or the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C goal will be gone within a few years.

The word waste means different things to different people. Different local conditions and data collection methods confuse attempts to arrive at clear definitions. This report focuses on

This reports considers transformation required in the sectors of electricity supply, industry, transport and buildings. It furthermore investigates cross-cutting systemic transformations of food systems and the financial system, illustrating that there is immense potential to reduce emissions beyond current mitigation pledges.

Climate risks are increasing as global warming accelerates. Strong mitigation and adaptation are both key to avoiding hard adaptations limits.

Tens of thousands of chemicals exist in commercial products and processes many of which have hazardous properties. Risk reduction measure aim to protect human health and the environment from the adverse effects of these hazardous chemicals.

To support the goal of the Alliance to promote lead paint laws, the planned outcome of the lead in paint component is for 40 countries to legislate and implement legislation to restrict the use of lead paint and for at least 30 small and medium enterprises (SME) paint manufactures in seven countries to phase out lead from their production processes.