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Assisted by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 16 countries adopted the Mediterranean Action Plan (Med Plan) in 1975.

The United Nations Environment Programme (Unep) said the big cat was critically endangered, and wants increased protection for the world's fastest land animal.

It is a stultifying coming-together, a dated modernity, like "Planet of the Apes", perhaps.Which is not to say that UNEP has been without successes.

UNEP has looked at the emission-reducing impact of the various promises countries have made since the Copenhagen climate-change conference in 2009.

Pekka Haavisto, who chaired the UNEP taskforces in Afghanistan, Palestine and the Balkans, is particularly worried about the declining quality of fresh water in Gaza.

Yet, in summing it up, UNEP decries "the declining environmental quality of planet earth", and wags a finger at economic prosperity: "Currently, one-fifth of the world's population enjoys high, some would say excessive, levels of affluence".

A joint Interpol-UNEP report earlier this year linked the revenues from environmental crime to extremist militias such as the Lords Resistance Army in Uganda, the Janjaweed in Sudan and al-Shabaab in Somalia.

Global greenhouse-gas emissions and current trendsAS TENS of thousands of politicians, diplomats, NGO-workers and journalists descend on Doha for the two-week feeding frenzy known as the UN's annual climate-change summit, the latest report from the UN Environment Programme UNEPP) shows that matters climatic are going from bad to worse.

Deforestation in Indonesia for palm oil and illegal logging is so rapid that a report in 2007 by the United Nations Environment Programme UNEPP) said most of the country's forest might be destroyed by 2022.

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the United Nations Environment Programme UNEPP) are also based on functional principles.

The Stockholm Conference also led to the creation of the United Nations Environment Programme UNEPP) in December 1972 to coordinate global efforts to promote sustainability and safeguard the natural environment.