Intern - Environment Affairs [temporary]

vor 2 Wochen

Geneve, Schweiz United Nations Vollzeit

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the United Nations system's designated entity for addressing environmental issues at the global and regional level. Its mandate is to coordinate the development of environmental policy consensus by keeping the global environment under review and bringing emerging issues to the attention of governments and the international community for action. UNEP's Industry and Economy Division works with International and nongovernmental organizations, national and local governments, business and industry to develop and implement policies, strategies and practices that are cleaner and safer, incorporate environmental costs, use natural resources efficiently, reduce pollution and risks for humans and the environment, and enable the implementation of conventions and international agreements. Located within the United Nations Environment Programme's Industry and Economy Division, the Resources and Markets Branch seeks to conserve the environment, reduce poverty, and promote sustainable development by enhancing the capacity of governments, businesses, and civil society to integrate environmental considerations into economic, trade, and financial policies and practices in accordance with integrated policy-making approaches of sustainable development. Over the past years, the focus of Resources and Markets Branch has been UNEP’s work related to Green Economy.

This internship opening is posted in the Environment and Trade team under the Economic and Trade Policy Unit of the Resources and Markets Branch of the Industry and Economy Division. The Hub provides capacity-building and policy advice on sustainable trade and investment. It aims to identify, assess and inform sustainable trade opportunities that arise from a green economy transition, and to tackle related risks and challenges. It assists countries in using trade as an engine towards a green economy, by means of research, advisory services and capacity building.

UNEP Environment and Trade team’s work on high-impact sectors
1. Food and Agriculture - ‘TRADE Hub’
UNEP is a core partner in the work of the UKRI Trade, Development, and the Environment Hub (abbreviated ‘TRADE Hub’), funded by the UKRI Global Challenges Research Fund, which is a 5-year partnership of 100 researchers, 50 organisations, 15 countries, including UNEP-WCMC and the UNEP Environment and Trade team. Among other activities related to the project, UNEP’s Environment and Trade team is responsible for leading public sector impact and engagement in the food and agriculture sector, working to: a) Enhance knowledge, capacity and partnerships of public sector stakeholders to identify, promote and implement policy solutions in support of sustainable trade in wild meat, wildlife and agricultural commodities, contributing to ecosystem resilience, safeguarding biodiversity and promoting inclusive sustainable development; and b) Facilitate and support creation of platforms partnerships for discussion, research dissemination, awareness raising materials, and delivery of capacity building that contribute to policy-relevant outcomes and solutions.

2. Outputs from UNEP’s work include research-based trade policy briefings, capacity building and trade policy workshops, and multi-stakeholder dialogues on topics such as biodiversity, land use, sustainable agriculture, and sustainability standards.Textiles
This work explores the role of trade in supporting sustainable and circular têxtile value chains, under UNEP’s overall framework on Sustainable and Circular Fashion. It does so through country case studies to map out trade flows in têxtile products, identify environmental hotspots, and analyze gaps and opportunities to support policy makers and SMEs (Small Medium Enterprise) in using trade policy instruments (including trade finance) and trade agreements to transition towards sustainable and circular têxtile value chains. In an upcoming project funded by the European Union, the team will be working on improving the sustainability of trade of used or secondhand têxtiles by developing criteria to distinguish between waste and reusable têxtiles focused on three target importing countries.

3. Plastics
This work underlines the role of trade in supporting a sustainable and circular plastics economy, under UNEP’s overall contribution to the adoption and implementation of the global treaty on plastics pollution through a value chain approach. The value-chain approach considers the entire value chain of economic activities, by understanding what is happening at different stages of the value chain as well as how the value chain operates as part of a system. Adopting a value-chain approach helps to identify strategic intervention points and shape corresponding actions that improve natural resource management and achieve multiple sustainability objectives simultaneously. The Environment and Trade team is working to advance understanding and dialogue on tra

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