UNEP menuUNEP menu About UNEP UNEP Offices News Centre Publications Calendar Awards Milestones UNEP Store

In Focus

Hotspots on Google Maps
Google Maps

UNEP Yearbook 2010
Google Maps

News

Kenya State of the Environment 2010

Kenya SoE and Outlook 2010

This state of the environment (SoE) report profiles Kenya's environmental resources as an asset for the country's development. To this end, the report highlights the opportunities presented by Kenya's natural resource base to support Vision 2030. It also assesses the state and threats to key resources including land, water, wetlands, biodiversity, forests, coastal and marine resources. In addition, issues related to economics, poverty and gender; and their interlinkages with the environment are discussed.

Download here »
Additional download: Summary for Decision Makers

Keeping Track Cover

Keeping Track of Our Changing Environment

This innovative publication, which is based on statistical evidence, illustrates major global environmental, economic and social changes since 1992. The numbers tell the story of how, in twenty years, the world has changed more than most of us could have ever imagined. The report has been produced within the framework of UNEP's fifth Global Environment Outlook assessment report, which will be published in May 2012 in advance of Rio+20.

Download here »

Africa Water Atlas

Africa Water Atlas

The Africa Water Atlas tells the paradoxical story of a continent with adequate renewable water resources, but unequal access because water is either abundant or scarce depending on the season or the place. Water is the most crucial element in ensuring livelihoods since more than 40 percent of Africa's population lives in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas and about 60 percent live in rural areas and depend on farming for their livelihoods.

Read More »

Videos

Africa Water Atlas

Lake Chad

Aral Sea