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Annual report
UNEP 2024 Annual Report: We are all in this together
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Press release
New Coalition aims to put Artificial Intelligence on a more sustainable path
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Inside the effort to save an iconic Caribbean coral reef
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Story
From Rwanda to Ecuador, these women are leading the shift to electric transport
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### Sustainable fashion to take centre stage on Zero Waste Day
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Story
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### With new climate plans, countries could supercharge growth, fight poverty, say experts
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Press release
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### IPCC agrees on outlines of three key contributions to the Seventh Assessment Report
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### Governments agree on the way forward to mobilise the resources needed to protect biodiversity
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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
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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.
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