Goldman Environmental Prize Winners

Goldman Environmental Prize Honors Seven Environmental Heroes

  Award recognizes activists from Colombia, France, Vietnam, the Philippines, South Africa, and the United States   The Goldman Environmental Foundation has announced seven recipients of the 2018 Goldman Environmental Prize, the world’s largest award for grassroots environmental activists. Awarded annually to environmental heroes from each of the world’s six inhabited continental regions, the Goldman…

Electronic Waste Pile

An end to electronic waste: United Nations organizations highlight their commitment

Organizations from the United Nations system, most active in addressing the global e-waste challenge, signed a Letter of Intent paving the way for coordination and collaboration on United Nations system-wide support for e-waste management. The signatories organizations included: UN Environment, the International Telecommunication Union, United Nations University, International Labour Organization, the Basel and Stockholm Convention,…