The United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG) is actively improving waste management in the context of a comprehensive Environmental Management system (EMS). The Sustainable UN (SUN) team of UNEP guided an internal audit on waste samples…
Annual Report
The Greening the Blue Annual Report provides information on the UN system's environmental performance and the progress in the implementation of the Sustainability Strategy I.
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UN entities report on their environmental performance through Greening the Blue.
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News
On the rooftop of IFAD’s HQ in Rome, two beehives are doing more than making honey — they’re helping monitor urban air quality. By analyzing the honey for pollutants through the University of Tor Vergata in Rome, and comparing it with…
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) today released its Adaptation Gap Report 2025: Running on Empty, revealing a growing gap between the adaptation needs of developing countries and the finance available to meet them.…
Resources and Publications
The 2025 edition of the Greening the Blue Annual Report presents the environmental performance of the UN system in 2024, covering operations of headquarters and field offices worldwide. 60 UN system entities have submitted performance…
Waste composition analysis is a process of physically separating, weighing, and categorizing waste. This is done with the purpose to understand the composition of the waste generated, to estimate waste amounts generated in a year, and…
On an annual basis, Greening the Blue provides information on the UN system’s environmental footprint and the efforts to reduce it.This 2024 edition of the Greening the Blue report showcases the sustainability performance of the UN system…