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Montenegro: UN-backed project turns toxic site into ecotourism hub
A United Nations-backed project in northern Montenegro has transformed a town blighted by pollution from a nearby zinc mine into a magnet for ecotourism that aims to now attract kayakers, bicyclists and mountain hikers.
UN environment agency backs action to regulate e-waste in Kenya
Kenya is set to become the first East African nation to regulate the management of electronic waste, also known as "e-waste", following a conference run by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
Innovative urban housing programmes receive UN awards
The United Nations agency tasked with promoting environmentally and socially sustainable cities and towns has declared the winners of this year's Scroll of Honour, the UN awards for excellence in human settlements development.
UN green agency announces strategy to reduce size of its own carbon footprint
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has unveiled plans to further reduce its own carbon footprint by slashing the amount of employee air travel and cutting the use of paper and electricity in its office.
Governments must ramp up action to ward off looming water crisis, UN report warns
With competition on the rise between humans and other species for the world's limited water supplies, governments must take environmental issues into consideration when drafting laws on the use of water to avert an impending water crisis, cautions a new United Nations report.

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