Environmental Successes Honoured by UNEP: The Global 500

Development and Implementation of Environmental Law – a Contribution by UNEP

Since its creation in the aftermath of the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, UNEP has played a crucial role in the development and implementation of environmental law. UNEP’s mandate in this field emanates from UN General Assembly resolution 2997 (XXVII) and subsequent General Assembly resolutions and decisions of the UNEP Governing Council. During the 1970s, UNEP’s manda...

South Africa's scientists honoured as global lifesavers.

Last October, a rejuvenated, financially healthier and better-led Medical Research Council (MRC) gave lifetime achievement awards to two local scientists whose applied research has saved tens of thousands of lives in South Africa (SA) and multiples more in other countries, winning international recognition. Lung Institute. Madhi headed a team that developed and promoted pneumococcal conjugate a...

UNEP Global Outlook on Methane Gas Hydrates

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The UNEP Global Outlook on Methane Gas Hydrates seeks to provide policy makers, the general public and the media with a synthesis of aspects of natural, social and applied sciences that relate to this type of natural gas occurrence. With an emphasis on visual media, the Outlook is working to define global methane gas hydrate occurrences in their natural settings and examine th...

Global sea turtle conservation successes

We document a tendency for published estimates of population size in sea turtles to be increasing rather than decreasing across the globe. To examine the population status of the seven species of sea turtle globally, we obtained 299 time series of annual nesting abundance with a total of 4417 annual estimates. The time series ranged in length from 6 to 47 years (mean, 16.2 years). When levels o...

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