Comparing pledges to Unep with a country's gross national product, though, gives a very different picture.
Part of Unep's problem is that it is not a UN organisation, but a programme.
The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) is currently monitoring lakes that have formed as glaciers melt.
The site was launched during this week's meeting of Unep's governing council in Nairobi.
The UNEP issued a report on Wednesday that includes analysis and satellite imagery of the turnaround.
As I said up above, the UNEP report makes it clear how these things happen.
Already Unep.net lets people see images of their own neighbourhood at various resolutions, depending on where you live.
The delegates invited UNESCO, UNEP, FAO and UNDP to submit a joint proposal to institutionally co-host the Secretariat.
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is calling for an assessment of bombed sites containing weapons with depleted uranium.
In February 1995, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) organized a conference in Nairobi regarding such international taxes and fees.
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"The report provides a sobering assessment of the gulf between ambition and reality, " says Achim Steiner, the executive director of Unep.
According to the United Nations Environment Program, or UNEP, around 30 percent of the world's coral reefs are already damaged, some irreparably.
The UNESCO-SCOPE-UNEP Policy Brief Series focuses on emerging and critical environmental issues.
Yet the fund pays not only for salaries and other overheads, but for all the activities Unep undertakes which do not attract specific project money.
Both organizations at the global level that deal with sustainable development, primarily UNEP and the Commission on Sustainable Development, their roles were addressed.
The UNEP is familiar with assessing post-conflict environmental damage as it has already conducted similar missions in Liberia, Iraq, Afghanistan and the Balkans.
It was decided that the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) will provide the Secretariat for the Platform, which will operate from Bonn in Germany.
Funding for the group has been provided by the Waterloo Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
The Conference is jointly organized by: UNW-DPAC and the Ebro River Basin Authority, UNESCO, UNW-DPC, World Bank, UNEP, OECD, ILO, ECLAC, ESCWA, and UN-Habitat.
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But earlier, Unep spokesman Nick Nuttal told the BBC's Network Africa that the study was not intended to "blame any particular stakeholder operating in Ogoniland".
In the area of UNEP, they were upgraded to universal membership.
In 2009, nations - through the Unep Governing Council - agreed to launch negotiations to establish a legally binding treaty that would cut mercury emissions from human activities.
The political tools gained in these difficult fora will be crucial in keeping the work of Unep alive even as its future is decided within the UN's higher echelons.
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The policy brief can be obtained in hard copy at the UNESCO, UNEP and SEI stands at the COP-17 in Durban, through request to UNESCO or online (.pdf).
Less than one-third of the 60 metals studied in the report have an end-of-life recycling rate above 50% while 34 elements are below 1% recycling, the UNEP panel found.
Unep has urged the Albanian authorities to take urgent measures to start dealing with its catastrophic catalogue of environmental degradation, and is urging the international community to take notice.
The UNEP report follows on from a new analysis by the World Meteorological Organisation that says the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached a record high in 2011.
"The battle for sustainable development, for delivering a more environmentally stable, just and healthier world, is going to be largely won and lost in our cities, " said Klaus Toepfer, Unep's executive director.
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But the United Nations Environmental Program me (UNEP) has also recently said that population growth in the cities of the developing world "has outpaced the ability to provide vital infrastructure and services".
Under the patronage of UNESCO and in cooperation with UNEP and UNIDO, Energy Globe is starting an unprecedented global online campaign focused on energy efficiency and best practices on 5 June 2012.
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