Mandate and Location Ivanova extensively examines why UNEP was created as a "program" and not an "organization", and why it was located in Nairobi, becoming the first UN body established in the developing world, and especially in Africa. UNEP was just too ill-resourced to handle all of this, especially from a distant center of gravity in UN locational terms, and was always confronted by bodies that claimed they also enjoyed environmental mandates and were the champions of saving the planet. Graph The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) was conceived at the UN Conference on the Human Environment held in Stockholm in June 1972. UNEP at 100 This absorbing narrative, the first of its kind at this depth of investigation, and therefore all the more welcome, curiously leads to a set of sobering conclusions regarding the forthcoming 50 years facing UNEP. [Extracted from the article]