UN forum to coordinate global efforts to address worsening water shortages
With extreme weather costing hundreds of billions a year and [...]
UN experts urges Poland to ensure unrestricted ＆civic space＊ during climate talks
Poland＊s new law designed to address safety concerns during the [...]
Hottest April day ever recorded – maybe: UN weather watchdog
Deadly storms in India and record temperatures in Pakistan [...]
90 per cent of the planet is breathing in polluted air 每 World Health Organization
Air pollution claims seven million lives a year, UN [...]
Business Demonstrates Bold Action at Paris Agreement Progress Talks in Bonn
UN Climate Change News, Bonn, 2 May 2018 每 Organizers [...]
Earth Day: Launch of UNICEF Climate Comic Book Contest Winner
21-year-old Sona Sridhar, winner of the inaugural UNICEF Climate Comic [...]
Climate Action Special Envoy Bloomberg pledges $4.5 million to help UN fight climate change in line with the Paris Agreement
The UN Special Envoy for Climate Action, Michael Bloomberg, [...]
A bio-based, reuse economy can feed the world and save the planet 每 UN agency
Transforming pineapple skins into product packaging or using potato [...]
WHO: Breathe Life – How air pollution impacts your body
Air pollution is an invisible killer that lurks all around us, preying on the young and old. Learn how it slips unnoticed past our body's defenses causing deaths from heart attack, strokes, lung disease and cancer.
UNFCCC Media Alert: UN Opens Talanoa Dialogue Portal, Aiming for Higher Climate Ambition
UNFCCC Media Alert: UN Opens Talanoa Dialogue Portal, Aiming [...]
UN peacekeeping operations will keep aiming to reduce their environmental impact 每 Security Council
The Security Council on Thursday said that United Nations peacekeeping missions will continue to consider ways to reduce the environmental impact of their operations, in line with relevant UN resolutions and mindful of the goals set out in international accords on the environment, including the Paris Agreement on climate change.
Arctic forever changed by rapidly warming climate 每 UN weather agency
A girl from the I?upiat community stands on a ice floe on a shore of the Arctic Ocean in Barrow, Alaska in the United States. The anomalous melting of the Arctic ice is one of the many effects of global warming that has a serious impact on the life of humans and the wildlife. Photo: UNICEF/Vlad Sokhin
One Planet Summit: Finance commitments fire-up higher momentum for Paris Agreement
New investments in climate action from UN agencies, governments and businesses, plus initiatives to increase support for Africa, Caribbean, small island states and more were announced at the Paris event.
＆Invest in the future, not the past;＊ green business key to winning war on climate change 每 UN chief
Those who fail to bet on a green economy will be living in a grey future, United Nations Secretary-General Ant車nio Guterres warned Tuesday, calling for greater ambition by governments, civil society, the private sector and finance partners to help tackle the global climate challenge.
Secretary-General’s remarks at the One Planet Summit
THE SECRETARY-GENERAL REMARKS AT ONE PLANET SUMMIT Paris, 12 December [...]
From thorny to tasty: UN agriculture agency looking at cactus as climate resilient food
With the reality of climate change becoming more real by the day, including its impact on food sources, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is urging communities around the world not to take the prickly cactus for granted.
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