At UN Environment I work on a team called the Special Programme (to be renamed the Chemicals and Waste Fund in the near future). The Special Programme is a trust fund supported by developed countries to fund projects...
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Category: Sustainability
UN World Population Day
Today, July 11th, is UN World Population Day. According to the UN Population Division, “Current estimates indicate that roughly 83 million people are being added to the world’s population every year. Even assuming that fertility levels will continue to decline, the global population is expected to reach 8.6 billion in 2030, 9.8 billion in 2050 and 11.2 billion in 2100, according to the medium-variant projection.” The massive projected increases...
Environmental Buzzwords: Toxic Colonialism
I'm absorbing so much information every single day at work that I decided to do another post on something I learned about this week. As I've mentioned before, I'm working at UNEP this summer and the learning curve is extremely high. Since I work in the Chemicals & Waste Branch, I've had to familiarize myself...
Things I Learned at Work This Week: Environmental Buzzwords
This week was a pretty amazing first week of work. This summer I'm working at the UN Environmental Programme in the Chemicals & Waste branch. UNEP is housed in the UN Office at Geneva. However, there are two locations in Geneva. Le Palais de Naciones is the huge, beautiful...
From Brown to Green 