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Achim Steiner, Executive Director of UNEP in a report titled Elephants in the Dust warns: "The African Elephant is facing the greatest crisis in decades.

The findings are being unveiled at a meeting of the UN Environment Programme (Unep) in Bali today, along with a call for greater efforts to fix the problem.

And some of the gunk, notably soot or "black carbon", can warm the planet, too.Next week ministers attending the governing council of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in Nairobi will be presented with the summary of a new report on how fighting air pollution can help the global climate (the report itself is due to follow a couple of months later).

So, I invite young scientists the world over to join UNEP in its endeavor to create a healthy environment.

Toxins found by UNEP in the wider Ogoniland area's drinking water include benzene, which is thought to cause cancer.

Another vital strand in her life was the creation of global environmental organisations, in particular the United Nations Environment Programme (Unep) in 1972.

Computers and smart phones are among the ditched items contributing to this 41m tonne e-waste mountain, which could top 50m tonnes by 2017, Unep says in a new report launched today in Geneva.

UNEP succeeded in establishing, through the General Assembly, a World Commission on Environment and Development and in 1988 outlined an environmental program to set priorities for the 1990 95 period.

Over the next two years, UNEP FI, in partnership with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, will facilitate an international process aimed at shaping a standard to guide investors to undertake GHG accounting and reporting in a relevant, complete, consistent, transparent, accurate, yet practicable and resource-efficient manner.

There are 2,500 delegates from 151 member countries at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) headquarters in Nairobi, and the main talk among them is of the resumption of trade in turtle, whale and elephant products.Cuba wants to sell off its stockpile of tortoiseshells and to resume fishing for the hawksbill turtles that provide them.

"In at least 10 Ogoni communities where drinking water is contaminated with high levels of hydrocarbons, public health is seriously threatened," the UN Environmental Programme (Unep) said in a statement.