The Middle East Green Initiative launch in Saudi Arabia on Monday was hailed by the UN’s deputy chief as a valuable commitment and strategic vision, to transition regional economies away from unsustainable development, to a model “fit for the challenges of the 21st century”.
The UN Secretary-General on Monday called on China to present an “ambitious” Nationally Determined Contribution in the run-up to the UN Climate Conference, COP26, starting in Glasgow at the end of this week.
New York, U.S// – A major poll of public opinion on climate change in the G20 countries published today by the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the University of Oxford, shows how public support for climate action is set to strengthen in the near future as climate-aware teenagers become of voting age, enter the workforce, and […]
Last year, heat-trapping greenhouse gases reached a new record, surging above the planet’s 2011-2020 average, and has continued in 2021, according to a new report published on Monday by the UN weather agency.
The world’s poorest countries will be hit hardest by climate hazards and climate change driven extreme weather events. Getty Images/ Luis Dafos Georgia Savvidou, Chalmers University of Technology and Christopher Trisos, University of Cape Town Back in 2009, the world’s wealthier nations pledged to mobilise $100 billion a year by 2020 to help developing countries […]
Floodwaters in the town of Bushmans River in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. Shutterstock Jennifer Fitchett, University of the Witwatersrand Many people still think of climate change as a phenomenon that we will only face in the distant future. Perhaps that’s partly because climate change projections about rising temperatures and extreme weather events are […]
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo/ — Industrial logging in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) may severely disturb rainfall patterns across sub-Saharan Africa and bring about more extreme weather, including intense droughts and flash floods.
Climate change has begun to exacerbate societal challenges in many areas that philanthropies have prioritized, such as education, health, human rights, equality, and food security. Still greater threats to human well-being lie ahead.
An inaugural 10-country global research study of public attitudes to ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) principles for governments and corporates has found that environment, especially climate change, dominates people’s concerns.
A project to help map ‘hotspots’ of plastic rubbish in Portsmouth is being launched this week.
