UNEP Success Stories

The following success stories are divided according to UNEP's priority areas:

Climate Change

• Helping Governments Understand Climate Change
  
• Addressing Climate Change: The Billion Tree Campaign

Disasters and Conflicts

• Supporting Environmental Recovery to Strengthen Stability

Ecosystems Management

• Putting an End to the Illegal Wildlife Trade (CITES)
  
• Convention of Biological Diversity Prepares for 2010 International Year of Biodiversity

Environmental Governance

• Putting the Environment First in Every Government
  
• Opposing Sides Reaching an Understanding for the Environment (Regional Seas Programme)

Harmful Substances

• Protecting the Ozone: Removing One Harmful Substance at a Time (Montreal Protocol)
  
• The Stockholm Convention pushes chemicals issues up to the top of the Global Agenda
  
• Stopping Hazardous Waste Where it Starts (Basel Convention)