Ipieca celebrates World Environment Day 2026
  • Calendar5 June 2026

To mark World Environment Day, we are sharing a selection of Ipieca guidance that can support oil, gas and alternative energy companies contribute to its aims.

UN World Environment Day
  • Calendar5 June 2024

5 June marks UN World Environment Day. Find out how Ipieca is advancing environmental stewardship across the industry.

Ipieca celebrates World Environment Day 2022
  • Calendar6 June 2022

World Environment Day provides an opportunity to reflect and accelerate action towards a healthy planet for the prosperity of all.

World Environment Day: Restoring biodiversity and ecosystem services and the environment
  • Calendar7 June 2021

This year, World Environment Day is centred around '#GenerationRestoration - Reimagine, recreate, restore'.

Ipieca celebrates World Environment Day
  • Calendar3 June 2020

This World Environment Day, Ipieca joins the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in recognizing that it is 'Time for Nature'.

Ipieca celebrates World Environment Day
  • Calendar5 June 2019

This year's theme is 'air pollution'. Air quality in urban areas, especially in developing countries, is a key concern for policymakers and citizens.

Ipieca celebrates World Environment Day 2023
  • Calendar5 June 2023

Ipieca joins the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) in celebrating the 50th anniversary of World Environment Day, marking this occasion by sharing good practice to help protect and enhance nature.

Ipieca insights from the 5th UN Environment Assembly
  • Calendar20 April 2022

Read Ipieca's key takeaways from the 5th UN Environment Assembly: strengthening actions for nature to achieve the SDGs.

Ipieca insights from the IMO’s Marine Environment Protection Committee 83rd session
  • Calendar23 April 2025

The IMO Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) met for its 83rd session in person at IMO Headquarters in London where it approved the IMO Net-zero Framework, the first in the world to combine mandatory emissions limits and GHG pricing across an entire industry sector.

Ipieca and IUCN renew partnership to advance environmental performance and support the energy transition
  • Calendar5 November 2025

At the IUCN World Conservation Congress 2025 in Abu Dhabi, Ipieca and IUCN renewed their partnership through the signing of a new memorandum of understanding (MoU) that will guide collaboration between the two organisations through 2030.

Enabling the industry to protect the natural environment
  • Calendar25 October 2021

Deena Clayton, Managing Director Sustainable Development, ConocoPhillips and Ipieca Vice Chair looks at how Ipieca's Nature strategy is supporting the CBD COP15.

Ipieca-IOGP launch second edition of 'Environmental management in the upstream oil and gas industry'
  • Calendar21 August 2020

The updated report reflects developments in the upstream oil and gas industry.

Ipieca launches 'Environmental and social good practice for the energy transition'
  • Calendar6 March 2020

Ipieca launches a compendium of good practice and tools useful for the alternative energy sector.

Ipieca-UN-Norad: Oil for Development - Africa Regional Workshop on Oil and Gas Operations in Environmentally Sensitive Areas
  • Calendar19 October 2018

The training aimed to enhance understanding of the impact of oil and gas operations in environmentally sensitive areas and strengthen national and regional efforts...

How is Ipieca supporting the environmental and social performance of renewables?
  • Calendar24 January 2024

Ipieca Climate Change Manager Amy Collins explains Ipieca’s unique role in supporting the sustainable scale up of renewable energy.

Ipieca publishes literature review of environmental and social good practices across wind and solar energy
  • Calendar7 December 2023

The document provides a review of good practices for environmental and social risks across the supply chain and carbon footprint management across the project life cycle of onshore and offshore wind and solar PV technologies.

New edition of 'Environmental and social good practice for the energy transition'
  • Calendar19 September 2023

An update to the compendium, first published in 2020, is now available. It aims to support renewable energy developers to enhance the environmental and social performance of their projects and operations.

Ipieca statement following the release of Global Environmental Change's paper
  • Calendar21 October 2021

An article published by Global Environmental Change on 19 October 2021 characterised Ipieca as working in the late 1980s to emphasise climate science uncertainties. This is a characterisation that Ipieca does not recognise.

Looking back on three years of advancing the industry's environmental and social performance
  • Calendar30 September 2021

bp Head of Carbon Strategy and Ipieca Vice Chair Kelly Goddard reflects on 3 years with Ipieca

SPE International Conference and Exhibition on Health, Safety, Security, Environment and Social Responsibility
  • Calendar21 February 2018

The theme for this year's conference, taking place in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates on 16-18 April is Continuing HSSE-SR Excellence for a Sustainable Future

Ipieca insights from the Nature Action Dialogues 2026
  • Calendar27 May 2026

Leaders from business, finance and the conservation community gathered in Cambridge, the UK, for the Nature Action Dialogues, co-hosted by UNEP-WCMC, Proteus Partners and Jesus College Cambridge. This year's theme was 'Countdown to 2030: aligning ambition, scaling integrated action’.

International Day for Biological Diversity 2026
  • Calendar22 May 2026

Aligned with this year’s three campaign pillars of: look and learn; connect and act; and share, Ipieca is sharing good practice guidance to enable energy companies to act on biodiversity and examples of positive change to inspire industry action.

Ipieca celebrates International Mother Earth Day 2026
  • Calendar22 April 2026

This year’s theme ‘Our power, our planet’ reflects on the importance of collaborative action to achieve harmony with nature.

Ipieca insights from the UNCBD Regional Africa Business and Biodiversity Forum
  • Calendar27 March 2026

Ipieca supported and took part in the forum, which highlighted sector-specific solutions to accelerate biodiversity mainstreaming, inform COP17 outcomes and strengthen regional reporting and implementation of the Global Biodiversity Framework.

Ipieca insights from UNEA-7
  • Calendar17 December 2025

The UN Environment Assembly delivered a new strategy which prioritises the interconnection of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution, and adopted 11 resolutions covering issues including climate resilience, minerals and metals, and chemicals and waste.

Celebrating World Maritime Day 2025
  • Calendar25 September 2025

Find out how Ipieca works with the IMO to support sustainable shipping.

Ipieca insights from the 2025 UN Ocean Conference
  • Calendar17 June 2025

The theme of the conference was ‘Accelerating action and mobilizing all actors to conserve and sustainably use the ocean’.

World Oceans Day 2025
  • Calendar8 June 2025

Find out about Ipieca's work and good practice to help protect the ocean.

International Day for Biological Diversity 2025
  • Calendar22 May 2025

Aligned with the Ipieca Principles on nature to support the aims of the UN CBD and responsibly manage operational impacts on the natural environment and ecosystem services, Ipieca is raising awareness of the International Day for Biological Diversity and resources aligned with the day’s aims.

International Mother Earth Day 2025
  • Calendar22 April 2025

UN International Mother Earth Day 2025 recognises the earth and its ecosystem as humanity's common home and the need to protect them to enhance people’s livelihoods and counteract climate change.

Resumed UNCBD COP16 lands finance agreement to advance the Global Biodiversity Framework
  • Calendar4 March 2025

Key outcomes agreed at follow up to COP16 held in Colombia last year.

Ipieca insights from COP16
  • Calendar15 November 2024

COP16 delivered the Cali Fund, strengthened the role of Indigenous Peoples in biodiversity efforts and made progress on the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) target 6 on invasive alien species.

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