This report highlights key progress made by the UN system in advancing common approaches, shared policy agendas, and joint operational initiatives on the environment. It outlines actions undertaken to strengthen interagency collaboration, enhance environmental integration across UN programmes, and support delivery of the environmental dimensions of the 2030 Agenda.
The 2025 edition of the Greening the Blue Annual Report presents the environmental performance of the UN system in 2024, covering operations of headquarters and field offices worldwide.
The United Nations System-Wide Framework of Strategies on the Environment (SWFS) aims to achieve greater synergy, collaboration, and coherence in the United Nations system’s work on the environment to support Member States in the delivery of the environmental dimension of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. This report was prepared for the information of the sixth session of UNEA providing an update on key collaborative initiatives on the environment under the Environment Management Group since the first SWFS report. It aims to provide a synoptic view of United Nations system efforts in enhancing environmental multilateralism for sustainable development, addressing the triple planetary crisis, and how these efforts can be enhanced in support of Member States.
The 2024 edition of the Greening the Blue Annual Report presents the environmental performance of the UN system in 2023, covering operations of headquarters and field offices worldwide.
The 2023 edition of the Greening the Blue Annual Report presents the environmental performance of the UN system in 2022, covering operations of headquarters and field offices worldwide.
The 2022 edition of the Greening the Blue Annual Report presents the environmental performance of the UN system in 2021, covering operations of headquarters and field offices worldwide.
The 2021 edition of the Greening the Blue Annual Report presents the environmental performance of the UN system in 2020, covering operations of headquarters and field offices worldwide.
The 2020 edition of the Greening the Blue Annual Report presents the environmental performance of the UN system in 2019, covering operations of headquarters and field offices worldwide.
This document presents key elements of a proposed Model Approach to Environmental and Social Standards for UN programming The Model Approach represents a key step in moving towards a common approach among UN entities for addressing environmental and social standards in programming.
The 2019 edition of the Greening the Blue Annual Report presents the environmental performance of the UN system in 2018, covering operations of headquarters and field offices worldwide.