The EMG convened its third Nexus Dialogue on 19 October 2017 to explore how stronger collaboration between the environmental and humanitarian sectors could improve humanitarian responses while building long-term resilience and advancing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Ahead of the Stockholm+50 International Meeting, held on 2–3 June 2022 to mark 50 years since the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, the EMG organized a two-part Nexus Dialogue series in November 2021 to reflect on five decades of UN engagement on the environmental agenda.
The report reviews procurement practices across a range of UN organizations and identified existing approaches, barriers and opportunities. The report highlights that sustainable procurement should combine traditional considerations such as value for money and quality with environmental and social criteria, including life-cycle impacts, labour conditions, human rights and equity.
The System-wide Framework of Strategies is a collaborative framework to achieve greater synergy, collaboration and coherence in the UN system’s work on the environment to support Member States in the delivery of the environmental dimension of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda.
The 2016 edition of the Greening the Blue Annual Report presents the environmental performance of the UN system in 2015, covering operations of headquarters and field offices worldwide.
The 2017 edition of the Greening the Blue Annual Report presents the environmental performance of the UN system in 2016, covering operations of headquarters and field offices worldwide.
The 2018 edition of the Greening the Blue Annual Report presents the environmental performance of the UN system in 2017, covering operations of headquarters and field offices worldwide.
The 2019 edition of the Greening the Blue Annual Report presents the environmental performance of the UN system in 2018, covering operations of headquarters and field offices worldwide.