Whois & Analysis for unenvironment.org

The United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) is an agency of United Nations and coordinates its environmental activities, assisting developing countries in implementing environmentally sound policies and practices.

It was founded by Maurice Strong, its first director, as a result of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (Stockholm Conference) in June 1972 and has its headquarters in the Gigiri neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya.

UN Environment also has six regional offices and various country offices.

Sustainable development is the organizing principle for meeting human development goals while at the same time sustaining the ability of natural systems to provide the natural resources and ecosystem services upon which the economy and society depends.

The desirable end result is a state of society where living conditions and resource use continue to meet human needs without undermining the integrity and stability of the natural systems.

Biodiversity, a contraction of "biological diversity," generally refers to the variety and variability of life on Earth.

One of the most widely used definitions defines it in terms of the variability within species, between species, and between ecosystems.

It is a measure of the variety of organisms present in different ecosystems.

This can refer to genetic variation, ecosystem variation, or species variation (number of species) within an area, biome, or planet.

Terrestrial biodiversity tends to be greater near the equator, which seems to be the result of the warm climate and high primary productivity.

Biodiversity is not distributed evenly on Earth, and is richest in the tropics.

These tropical forest ecosystems cover less than 10 per cent of earths surface, and contain about 90 percent of the worlds species.

Marine biodiversity tends to be highest along coasts in the Western Pacific, where sea surface temperature is highest and in the mid-latitudinal band in all oceans.

There are latitudinal gradients in species diversity.

Biodiversity generally tends to cluster in hotspots, and has been increasing through time, but will be likely to slow in the future.

Climate change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns when that change lasts for an extended period of time (i.e., decades to millions of years).

Climate change may refer to a change in average weather conditions, or in the time variation of weather around longer-term average conditions (i.e., more or fewer extreme weather events).

Climate change is caused by factors such as processes, variations in solar radiation received by Earth, plate tectonics, and volcanic eruptions.

Certain human activities have also been identified as significant causes of recent climate change, often referred to as global warming.