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Whereas over a third of children in rich countries complete university, in much of sub-Saharan Africa, a smaller share completes primary education – and just 5% attend university level. More
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McDonald's, The Coca-Cola Company, PepsiCo, Unilever, Carlsberg form Refrigerants, Naturally partnership with support of UNEP and Greenpeace
An alliance of companies - McDonald's,The Coca-Cola Company, PepsiCo, Unilever and Carlsberg - that is promoting a shift in point-of-sale cooling technology in the food and drink, food service and retail sectors towards alternative refrigeration technology that protects the Earth's climate and... More
Shipping corporations to minimize global environment threat
A Global Industry Alliance, made up of an innovative partnership between IMO, the United Nations Development Programme, the Global Environment Facility and four major private shipping corporations, aims to harness the different skills and expertise brought by these groups in order to develop... More
Expedia and UN Foundation partner to promote World Heritage tourism
Together with about 50 members from the travel industry, governments and conservation community the World Heritage Alliance for sustainable tourism is working to preserve more than 20 World Heritage sites in seven countries. More
Cadbury, UNDP team up for sustainable cocoa farming
Cadbury announced in 2008 the establishment of the Cadbury Cocoa Partnership together with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Ghanaian Government and other partners, in an initiative designed to secure the sustainable livelihoods of a million farmers in cocoa-growing communities... More
UN, Google, Cisco unveil online resource
The United Nations, Google and Cisco unveiled a pioneering online site that tracks progress towards decreasing global poverty by 2015, a global campaign known as the Millennium Development Goals, or MDGs. More
The Sahara of Cultures and Peoples project
In the context of combatting poverty (Millenium Development Goals), the objective of the project "The Sahara of Cultures and Peoples" is to assist the member states of the Sahara in the elaboration and implementation, especially by lessons learned from field pilot projects, of strategies for... More
The Proteus Partnership: Making Biodiversity and Ecosystem Data Available to All
By: Garrette Clark, UNEP
While there have been significant advances in the development of policies to incorporate biodiversity issues in businesses’ operations, reliable and accessible data on the distribution of biodiversity and ecosystem services can be a hurdle to a company’s ability to...
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Cooperation between UNITAR and VEOLIA Environnement
UNITAR and VEOLIA Environnement have renewed the partnership that unites the UNITAR Local Development Programme and VEOLIA Environnement. This innovative cooperation has been initiated in 2002 after the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg and it has been successfully and... More
National Cleaner Production Centres bring 'cleaner vision' to the world
Since 1994 UNEP, in partnership with UNIDO and local host organisations, have supported Cleaner Production (CP) policy analysis, training activities, in-plant demonstrations and information networking through the setting-up of a number of National Cleaner Production Centres (NCPC) around the world. More
The Investment Climate Facility For Africa (ICF)
An initiative named the Investment Climate Facility for Africa has been successfully developed and launched, to address key bottlenecks impeding African countries in improving their investment climates. It is a public-private financial facility seeking to make African countries more attractive to... More