More: Environment
2020: A crunch year for the biodiversity and climate emergencies
Over the last few months, the scientific community has repeatedly
sounded the alarm on biodiversity breakdown and the climate emergency.
Scientists and most governments agree that...
Africa pushes for special consideration in Madrid climate talks
As terrible floods inundate their country, close to
100 Kenyan delegates have convened in Madrid, Spain, along with thousands of
global leaders, for the COP 25...
SDG 7: Win-Win for Ending Energy Poverty and Protecting the Climate
In 2015, the climate and development agendas crossed paths with the
adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 and the Paris Agreement.
While climate change...
UNECE and FAO support ecosystem restoration in Eastern and South-East Europe
Countries in Eastern and South-East Europe
need to develop viable solutions and goals for forest landscape restoration, as
well as learn how to tap into the...
Climate Overshoot: The Important Conversation We’re Not Having
A newly released paper, Planning for Change:
Conservation-Related Impacts of Climate Overshoot, published in Oxford University Press journal, BioScience, examines the
potentially substantial impacts climate overshoot...
The European Green Deal: Our new growth strategy
Do we, humans, want to continue living well and safely on this planet?
Humanity faces an existential threat – the whole world is beginning to...
Are Nature Based Solutions the key to Africa’s climate response?
While the UN climate talks are celebrating their 25th year, carbon
emissions around the world have continued to climb. For many, that is where
natural solutions...
Greener tourism: Greater collaboration needed to tackle rising emissions
The World
Tourism Organization (UNWTO) is calling for enhanced cooperation between
the transport and tourism sectors to combat climate change.
On the sidelines of the 2019 United...
World’s governments plan to produce 120% more fossil fuels by 2030 than can be burned under 1.5°C warming
The world is on track to produce far more coal, oil and gas than would
be consistent with limiting warming to 1.5°C or 2°C, creating...
Greening the blue: championing coastal climate solutions
They call them ‘blue forests’—and they are among the most productive and
valuable habitats on Earth.
Mangroves might not look like much to some, but these...