Climate crunch time is here. COP29has delivered a hard-fought deal. This is at a time when science tells us that without action, climate impacts will only intensify further. COP29 has now secured a ...
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, ...
Geneva, 18 November 2024 - The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development (IGF) signed a Memorandum of ...
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.
Ministers, excellencies, colleagues and friends, As a year in which climate impacts have yet again intensified draws to a close, updated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)are beginning to come ...
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 ...
My thanks to the Global Judicial Institute on the Environment, led by my good friend Chief Justice Antonio Benjamin, for organizing this event. And to the many partners who supported it. Even at ...
Countries need to ensure that their climate action plans, known as Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and due in February, are ambitious, says Inger Andersen, Executive Director of the United ...