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Corporate environmental responsibility at FAO: 2020 report

Year of publication 2021

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 4p.

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Brochure, flyer, fact-sheet

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (UN FAO), guided by the FAO Corporate Environmental Responsibility (CER) Policy and the new UN 2020-2030 sustainability strategy, and in coordination with other UN agencies undertaking the Greening the Blue initiative, is constantly seeking to enhance and augment the sustainability portfolios of its facilities and daily operations. The remit of the current document is to describe and showcase greening initiatives and acheivements, along with related performance indicators, using data for the year 2019. These achievements are mainly related to the planning and implementation of projects and initiatives at headquarters (HQ) and in Decentralized Offices (DOs).

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