Countries are for the first time considering restrictions on the global production of plastic – to reduce it by 40% in 15 years – in…
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UN-led panel aims to tackle abuses linked to mining for ‘critical minerals’
A UN-led panel of nearly 100 countries is to draw up new guidelines to prevent some of the environmental damage and human rights abuses associated…
View More UN-led panel aims to tackle abuses linked to mining for ‘critical minerals’UN livestock emissions report seriously distorted our work, say experts
A flagship UN report on livestock emissions is facing calls for retraction from two key experts it cited who say that the paper “seriously distorted”…
View More UN livestock emissions report seriously distorted our work, say expertsWorld Bank must take ‘quantum leap’ to tackle climate crisis, UN expert says
The World Bank must take a “quantum leap” to provide new finance to tackle the climate crisis or face “climate-driven economic catastrophe” that would bring…
View More World Bank must take ‘quantum leap’ to tackle climate crisis, UN expert saysUN names veteran EU official Astrid Schomaker as new biodiversity chief
The next UN biodiversity chief will be Astrid Schomaker, an EU civil servant who will be entrusted with helping the world confront the ongoing catastrophic…
View More UN names veteran EU official Astrid Schomaker as new biodiversity chief‘Ecocide in Gaza’: does scale of environmental destruction amount to a war crime?
In a dilapidated warehouse in Rafah, Soha Abu Diab is living with her three young daughters and more than 20 other family members. They have…
View More ‘Ecocide in Gaza’: does scale of environmental destruction amount to a war crime?Women and girls suffer first when droughts hit poor and rural areas, says UN
Women and girls are the first to suffer when drought strikes poor and rural areas, and water strategies around the world must reflect this, the…
View More Women and girls suffer first when droughts hit poor and rural areas, says UN‘Bewildering’ to omit meat-eating reduction from UN climate plan
The omission of meat-eating reduction from proposals in a UN roadmap to tackle the climate crisis and end hunger is “bewildering”, according to academic experts.…
View More ‘Bewildering’ to omit meat-eating reduction from UN climate planNewly elected leaders to be held to same climate obligations, says Cop29 chief
The governments that assume power after elections around the world this year will be held to the same climate obligations as their predecessors, the chief…
View More Newly elected leaders to be held to same climate obligations, says Cop29 chiefFinancial toll of climate crisis hitting women harder, UN says
Women in rural areas suffer substantially greater economic losses from the impacts of climate breakdown than men in developing countries, research has shown, and the…
View More Financial toll of climate crisis hitting women harder, UN says