The UN Poverty-Environment Initiative brings poverty & environment to the forefront of policymaking

June 22, 2016 by Shanna Edberg

The United Nations Poverty-Environment Initiative works in Europe, Asia-Pacific, Africa, and Latin America to help governments and other stakeholders manage the environment in a way that also improves livelihoods and leads to sustainable growth. Their overall goal is to link poverty and environmental goals and integrate them into national development planning, policymaking, and budgeting. Their projects include low-carbon sustainable development, waste management, natural resource management, climate-smart agriculture, and other topics.

This post is part of a series on organizations and leaders who engage in multisolving, or climate-smart policies that simultaneously work to mitigate climate change while providing co-benefits such as the ones described above.