Addressing today’s environmental challenges is largely beyond the capacity of individual countries.
Only concerted and coordinated international action will be sufficient.
The arena for such actions is the United Nations, and the focal point for such action is UNEP.
Governments have called for a more coherent system of international environmental governance as part of the UN
reform process, and are exploring the role and responsibility of UNEP and other UN entities in relation to environment
and development issues. This diagram presents the ‘environmental DNA’
of the UN system, linking to the environmental components of each organisation’s area of work.
