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The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) announced on Tuesday, the 2022 Champions of the Earth for their transformative action to prevent, halt or reverse ecosystem degradation.  

After days of intense negotiations that stretched into early Sunday morning in Sharm el-Sheikh, countries at the latest UN Climate Change Conference, COP27, reached agreement… Read More »COP27 closes with deal on loss and damage: ‘A step towards justice’, says UN chief

Independent human rights experts are in dialogue with Egyptian and UN authorities over the harassment of civil society representatives at the COP27 climate change conference,… Read More »Rights experts decry harassment of activists attending COP27

The 27th UN Climate Change Conference will close at least one day later than expected, the Egyptian Presidency announced on Friday, calling for negotiators to… Read More »As COP27 deadline slips, UN chief urges negotiators to aim for ‘maximum ambition’ on loss and damage

COP27 is scheduled to wrap up in 24 hours but countries remain divided on several significant issues including ‘loss and damage’, the UN Secretary-General said… Read More »‘Stand and deliver’, urges UN Secretary-General as divides threaten COP27 negotiations ahead of deadline

Without urgent investment in climate mitigation and adaptation, countries in the Sahel risk decades of armed conflict and displacement, exacerbated by rising temperatures, scarcity of… Read More »Invest more in Africa’s Sahel, or risk decades of armed conflict and displacement

For many years the climate crisis and the biodiversity crisis have been treated as separate issues, but the reality – as highlighted on Wednesday at… Read More »COP27: Protecting biodiversity is protecting the Paris Agreement

The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Wednesday launched a new climate financing initiative designed to help countries address current and growing impacts of the climate… Read More »UNICEF launches new child-focused climate initiative to head off disasters

The troubling expansion of oil, gas and coal projects, despite science telling us that fossil fuels must stay in the ground to avert the worst… Read More »Keep the 1.5°C goal alive, experts and civil society urge on ‘Energy Day’ at COP27

Without coordinated action, this year’s “crisis of affordability” threatens to become a dire global food shortage in 2023, the UN chief told the G20 Summit… Read More »Act together now, to prevent ‘raging food catastrophe’ next year: Guterres