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United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP

UNEP The United Nations Environment Programme

Chemin des Anémones 11-13, 1219 Châtelaine, Switzerland

https://www.unep.org/

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the world’s leading environmental authority, setting the global environmental agenda, promoting the coherent implementation of the environmental aspects of sustainable development within the UN system, and serving as an authoritative advocate for the global environment.

UNEP integrates digital and data tools and policies in its activities. This convergence between digital and the environment is the basis of UNEP’s new programme on Digital Transformation for Environmental Sustainability for 20222025.

Digital activities

The UNEP’s European office in Geneva works on the project ‘Digital Ecosystem for Earth Platform’. More specifically, the project focuses on linking the ecosystem in International Geneva to the following UNEP initiatives:

•A Global Environmental Data Strategy; •A World Environment Situation Room, where global environmental trends can be analysed in real-time using big data, AI and other frontier technologies; and •A new programme on Digital Transformation for Environmental Sustainability for 2022-2025.

UNEP-Geneva also participates in the following activities:

•The new Policy Network on Environment and Digitalization within the Internet

Governance Forum; •The initiatives of the Geneva Environmental Network; and •Academic and policy events and initiatives of the: World Meteorological Organization, Group on Earth Observation, University of Geneva, World Economic

Forum, and World Business Council for Sustainable Development.

GIP Geneva Internet Platform

7bis, Avenue de la Paix, CH-1202 Geneva, Switzerland

https://www.giplatform.org/

DiploFoundation

7bis, Avenue de la Paix, CH-1202 Geneva, Switzerland

https://www.diplomacy.edu/

Geneva Internet Platform 7bis Avenue de la Paix CH-1202 Geneva Switzerland