A working paper released by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) underscores the urgent need for increased sustainability in the extraction and use of critical energy transition minerals.
Greenhouse gas emissions are at their highest ever levels and this year is now almost certain to surpass 2023 as the warmest on record. The result is intensifying climate impacts, from intense ...
The Global Monitoring Plan (GMP) under the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) is a framework that enables collection of comparable monitoring data from all regions of the ...
Climate change. Nature, biodiversity and land loss. Pollution and waste. These are not standalone crises. They are one triple planetary crisis. A crisis that is undermining progress on human health, ...
Climate crunch time is here. Greenhouse gas emissions hit their highest levels last year. This year is on track to surpass 2023 as the warmest on record. We’ve seen raging wildfires, ruinous storms, ...
My thanks to the co-organizers of this Ministerial Meeting on Circular Economy: the COP29 Presidency of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO). Current Nationally ...
Your Excellency Dr Fitsum Assefa Adela, President of AMCEN, Minister of Planning and Development, Ethiopia, Your Excellency Josefa Leonel Correia Sacko, Commissioner for Agriculture, Rural Development ...
Excellencies, distinguished delegates, esteemed colleagues, It is a pleasure to join you at this critical moment for the Caspian Sea, a region with an ecological, economic and cultural importance that ...
As we meet here in Baku for COP29, 2024 is on track to surpass 2023 as the warmest on record and climate change is carving a deadly trail of destruction throughout the world. The next round of ...
Despite their critical role in mitigating climate change and providing essential ecosystem services, peatlands face significant threats and remain among the most poorly understood and under-monitored ...