UN Environment Programme (UNEP)

www.unenvironment.org

Founded in 1972

Mission: to provide leadership and encourage partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and people to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations.

The United National Environment Program is the leading global environmental authority which started to operate after the UN Conference on the Human Environment. They develop international environmental agreements, encourage environmental science, and create development policies with national governments. Experts of the UNEP have also contributed to guidelines of treaties and policies in terms of potentially harmful chemicals, transboundary air pollution, and contamination of international. UNEP’s activities cover a wide range of issues regarding the atmosphere, marine and terrestrial ecosystems, environmental governance and green economy.

UNEP has registered several successes, such as the 1987 Montreal Protocol for limiting emissions of gases blamed for thinning the planet’s protective ozone layer, and the 2012 Minamata Convention, a treaty to limit toxic mercury. UNEP has also sponsored the development of solar loan programmes, with attractive return rates in the developing countries.