The UN system’s journey towards climate neutrality began on 5 June 2007, when then UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon publicly called on all UN agencies, funds and programmes to ‘go green’ and become climate neutral. Many important steps were taken across the UN system between 2007 to 2019. For more on the history of “greening the UN” Read More
In 2019, under the leadership of Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, the UN’s Chief Executives Board for Coordination endorsed the first Strategy for Sustainability Management in the UN system, which covers the years 2020 - 2030.
The strategy includes a vision for sustainability in the UN system:
“The UN System is a leader in integrating environmental and social sustainability considerations across its work in a systematic and coherent way, practicing the principles that it promotes and leaving a positive legacy.”
The aims of the strategy are to:
Phase I of the strategy, which focuses on internal environment sustainability covers:
Phase II of the strategy will be developed in 2020 by the Environment Management Group and will cover the environmental and social sustainability in UN policies and programmes.
The UN’s approach to achieving our environmental sustainability commitments is broadly divided into four main areas:
Offsetting link http://www.greeningtheblue.org/our-approach/offsetting