{"id":6496,"date":"2019-11-11T10:22:29","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T07:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6496"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:40","slug":"un-environment-programme-wins-award-for-freshwater-related-ecosystems-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/11\/11\/un-environment-programme-wins-award-for-freshwater-related-ecosystems-work\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Environment Programme Wins Award For Freshwater-Related Ecosystems Work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By UN Environment<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nUnited Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has won an award from the Group on\nEarth Observations\u2019 Earth Observation for Sustainable Development Goals\nInitiative and the Group on Earth Observations\u2019 Sustainable Development Goals\nAwards Panel for its \u201cremarkable efforts to integrate Earth observation data\ninto a global methodology to enable the official monitoring and reporting of\nSustainable Development Goal Target 6.6, Change in the extent of freshwater\nrelated ecosystems over time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\ntitle of the award is \u201c2019 Earth Observations for Sustainable Development\nAward\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nwork was a joint effort of UNEP\u2019s Science and Ecosystems Divisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAlthough the award was given to UNEP, the work on goal 6.6.1 would not have been possible without a number of other partners, primarily the European Commission-Joint Research Centre and Google, but also a number of other partners including the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the United States, the European Space Agency and the Group on Earth Observations\u2019 Secretariat,\u201d says UNEP statistician Jillian Campbell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/un-environment-programme-wins-award-freshwater-related-ecosystems-work\">Read more>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UN Environment The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has won an award from the Group on Earth Observations\u2019 Earth Observation for Sustainable Development Goals Initiative and the Group on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}