Water is in the spotlight at the UN climate summit. Here’s why that matters
Stories & Blogs UNEPNov 21, 2024(Story )Water is the lifeblood of our planet and freshwater ecosystems play a key role in sopping up planet-warming carbon dioxide emissions and making our societies resilient to climate disasters.
Cooling the Planet: COP29 affirms global climate action
Stories & Blogs UNEPNov 19, 2024(Story )Ministers and leaders from over 30 countries, joined by partners from intergovernmental organizations and civil society, came together at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, to chart a bold path forward for sustainable cooling.
Technology helping reduce methane emissions, but more action needed
Stories & Blogs UNEPNov 15, 2024(Story )The splotch, hovering over a patch of desert in eastern Algeria, was the tell-tale sign of a release of methane, a colourless, odourless gas supercharging climate change.
ECOSOC: Member States call for transformative policies and quality funding, crucial for the UN’s boost for people and planet
Stories & Blogs UNSDGMay 20, 2024(Story )Countries’ requests for the United Nations to deliver support through these turbulent times and steer us toward a sustainable future.
Massive investment and financial reform needed to rescue SDGs
Stories & Blogs UNSDGApr 11, 2024(Story )Financing for sustainable development is at a crossroads and without urgent investment, global efforts to achieve a more just and equitable world by 2030 will fail, the UN deputy chief warned.
UN General Assembly adopts declaration to accelerate SDGs.
Stories & Blogs UNSDGSep 18, 2023(Story )“Now is the time for a global plan to rescue the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which are woefully off-track halfway towards their 2030 deadline”, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said.