UN CITY SUPPLEMENT
LEADING THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGENDA Denmark, UN Environment is represented by its collaborating centre, UNEP DTU Partnership (UDP), the UNEP-DHI Centre and the Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN). UDP is a leading international research and advisory institution on energy, climate and sustainable development. It is institutionally a part of DTU Management Engineering and an integral part of UN Environment’s Climate Change Strategy and Energy Programme. UDP, conducts leading international research and provides policy analysis and capacity building on clean energy, low-carbon and resilient development to developing countries. It comprises two centres: The Centre on Energy, Climate and Sustainable Development, and the Copenhagen Centre on Energy Efficiency, which serves as the Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) Energy Efficiency Hub.
Lighting lives with solar power. Photo: UNEP Database United Nations Environment sets the global environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable development within the United Nations system, and serves as an authoritative advocate for the global environment. UN Environment has its headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, with six regional offices and various country offices and collaborating centres globally. In
The UNEP-DHI Centre is a UN Environment centre of expertise dedicated to improving the management, development and use of freshwater resources from the local to the global level. CTCN promotes the accelerated transfer of environmentally sound technologies for low-carbon and climate resilient development at the request of developing countries. It provides technology solutions, capacity building and advice on policy, legal and regulatory frameworks tailored to the needs of individual countries.
UNFPA – ENSURING RIGHTS AND CHOICES FOR ALL
UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, is the lead UN agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe, and every young person’s potential is fulfilled … WHERE EVERY PREGNANCY IS WANTED UNFPA enables women, men and young people to enjoy the human right to decide when to have children and how many to have. In 2018, this right celebrates its 50th anniversary and since 1968, the fertility rate in developing countries has declined from over 6 to 2.6 children per woman. … WHERE EVERY CHILDBIRTH IS SAFE UNFPA educates midwives and builds strong health systems to help women have a safe pregnancy and childbirth. Skilled attendance at birth, referral and emergency assistance (e.g. caesarean sections, blood transfusions or medicines) can save lives. Since 1990, the rate of women dying from complications in pregnancy and childbirth has been halved, but more than 800 women still die every day from such complications. … WHERE EVERY YOUNG PERSON’S POTENTIAL IS FULFILLED UNFPA promotes age-appropriate comprehensive sexuality education, access to youth-friendly services and gender equality. UFNPA supports the abandonment of harmful practices such as early and forced marriage and female general mutilation. UNFPA sees young people as a resource for positive change.
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IN ADDITION UNFPA also supports women, men and young people in emergency and crisis situations with all of the above, to have dignity and to be free from gender-based violence. DID YOU KNOW? UNFPA is the world’s largest procurer of contraceptives for public funds enabling millions of women, men and young people to plan their pregnancies. The UNFPA global procurement team and the UNFPA Nordic Office are located in UN City, Copenhagen, with a total of 60 staff members.