UNEP is the lead UN programme concerned with the environment.
- UNEP website
- Established by General Assembly resolution 2997 (XXVII) of 15 December 1972
- Agenda 21 (the outcome document of the 1992 Rio Conference) reinforced the mandate
- Governing Council adopted Nairobi Declaration on the Role and Mandate of UNEP on 7 February 1997
- Issues press releases on website
- Executive Directors
- 2019- : Inger Andersen (Denmark)
- Press release SG/A/1862-BIO/5187-UNEP/340 [2019]
- Re-elected: Press release SG/A/2179 [2023]
- 2016-2018 : Erik Solheim (Norway)
- Press release SG/A/1657-BIO/4837-UNEP/335
- 2006-2016: Achim Steiner (Germany)
- Press release GA/10450, SG/A/989-BIO/3750-UNEP/318 [2006])
- Re-elected: Press release SG/A/1231-BIO/4184-UNEP/324 [2010]
- Extension: SG/A/1456-UNEP/330 [2014]
- 1998-2006: Klaus Töpfer (Germany)
- A/52/695 of 24 Nov. 1997, General Assembly decision 52/316 of 3 Dec. 1997, Press release BIO/3122-UNEP/21 [1997], A/56/516 of 16 Nov. 2001, General Assembly decision 56/312 of 21 Nov. 2001
- 1993-1997: Elizabeth Dowdeswell (Canada)
- Press release SG/A/516 [1992], Press release SG/A/521-BIO/2729-HE/797 [1992], ST/SGB/258 of 11 Mar. 1993
- 1975-1992: Mostafa Kamal Tolba (Egypt)
- Press release BIO/1270-HE/294 [1975]
- 1973-1974: Maurice F. Strong (Canada)
- Governing Body
- 2013-present, UN Environment Assembly (UNEA)
- 1972-2013, Governing Council
UN Environment Assembly (UNEA), 2013-present
The UN Environment Assembly is the policy-making organ of UNEP.
- Governing Council membership expanded by General Assembly resolution 67/213 of 21 December 2012
- Governing Council name changed to United Nations Environment Assembly by General Assembly resolution 67/251 of 13 March 2013
- UN Environment Assembly website
- First session held in June 2014
- Document series symbol for working documents
- Sessional reports
- Supplement 25 to the General Assembly Official Records (GAOR)
- First report A/69/25
- A/session/25
- Example: A/71/25
- Provide summaries of the work concluded
- Contain the texts of resolutions and decisions adopted by the Assembly
- Search for Report of the UN Environment Assembly
Governing Council of the UNEP, 1972-2013
- Former policy-making organ of UNEP
- Met annually in Nairobi
- Documents series symbol for working documents
- UNEP/GC/-
- session information included beginning with UNEP/GC/6/-
- Sessional reports
- New York Press releases series symbol
- Rarely issued now;
- UNEP/- (formerly HE/-)
- Example: UNEP/327