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On the rooftop of IFAD’s HQ in Rome, two beehives are doing more than making honey — they’re helping monitor urban air quality. By analyzing the honey for pollutants through the University of Tor Vergata in Rome, and comparing it with filtered indoor air, IFAD turns its bees into bioindicators. Supported by a pollinator garden below, the project links biodiversity, research, and climate…

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- The UN General Assembly (A/RES/72/219) has endorsed the Secretary-General’s plan to integrate sustainable development practices into Secretariat-wide operations and facilities management.
- In February, the Languages Service (LS) of the Division of Conference Management at UNOG launched the EcoCorner, a sustainability project developed jointly by the Russian and the Spanish Translation Sections.
- For humanitarian logisticians, moving lifesaving goods to the world's most remote, complex and hardest-to-reach communities is a daily task.
- Over a period of three years, UN House in Namibia has made great strides in green energy and technological innovation.
- The UN's Chief Executive Board for Coordination endorsed the UN's first Strategy for Sustainability Management in the UN system.
- The heads of the UN entities have agreed on ambitious and concrete steps to address climate change in advance of the September Climate Action Summit.