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The environment is the economy
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Press release
Emissions from building sector stopped rising for the first time since 2020, UN finds
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Learn more
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How a grassroots financing model is helping Indigenous communities save the Amazon
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Learn more
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Story
This data platform charts the health of nearly every freshwater body on Earth. Here’s what it reveals
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](/news-and-stories/story/data-platform-charts-health-nearly-every-freshwater-body-earth-heres-what-it)
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[In Focus: International Day of Zero Waste (30 March)](https://www.un.org/en/observances/zero-waste-day)
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Theme
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Towards zero waste in fashion and textiles
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Watch
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Unsustainable consumption and production is harming people and the planet
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How to show support online and more
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### Climate and Clean Air Conference 2025
](/events/conference/climate-and-clean-air-conference-2025)
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### UNEP 2024 Annual Report: We are all in this together
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### IPCC agrees on outlines of three key contributions to the Seventh Assessment Report
](https://www.ipcc.ch/2025/03/01/ipcc-agrees-outlines-of-three-key-contributions-to-ar7/)
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### Governments agree on the way forward to mobilise the resources needed to protect biodiversity
](https://www.cbd.int/article/cop16-resumed-session-closing-2025)
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### Closing in on an end to plastic pollution
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### UNEA-7 charts a path toward a resilient planet
](/news-and-stories/story/unea-7-charts-path-toward-resilient-planet)
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Sustainable Development Goals
A clean and healthy environment is required to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Efforts to counter the triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, and pollution and waste must be ramped up in order to truly transform societies and economies for everyone, everywhere.
[Find out what we are doing](/topics/sustainable-development-goals)
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