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.
A new push to protect water, our most valuable resource
Stories & Blogs UNEPNov 21, 2024(News )Nearly three billion people face water scarcity. Over 90 per cent of disasters are water-related, including drought, desertification, fires and floods.
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.
Investing in early warnings systems to protect the world’s vulnerable
Stories & Blogs UNEPNov 19, 2024(Story )Greenhouse gas emissions are at their highest ever levels and this year is now almost certain to surpass 2023 as the warmest on record.
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.
AI has an environmental problem. Here’s what the world can do about that.
Stories & Blogs UNEPOct 31, 2024(Story )There are high hopes that artificial intelligence (AI) can help tackle some of the world’s biggest environmental emergencies.
Making peace with nature through the Global Biodiversity Framework - UNEP COP16 Plenary Statement.
Stories & Blogs UNEPOct 30, 2024(News )A plan that, as we implement and interweave it with the Climate Convention, the Desertification Convention, and the Pollution conventions, can truly address that which we refer to as the triple planetary crisis.
As trees rise, parched African landscapes spring back to life
Stories & Blogs UNEPJun 13, 2024(Story )When Yeshitila Haile looks up at the hillside behind his farmstead, he puts his hand on his heart and speaks with great satisfaction about how he has helped to transform the landscape in which he grew up.
Urgent action to cut methane emissions from fossil fuel operations essential to achieve global climate targets
Stories & Blogs UNEPOct 11, 2023(Story )Decisive, far-reaching efforts to cut methane emissions from fossil fuel production and use must go hand-in-hand with decarbonisation of our energy systems to limit global warming to 1.5 °C
Africa Climate Week 2023: Charting a fresh course for climate action
Stories & Blogs UNEPSep 04, 2023(News )As the world grapples with the urgent challenges posed by climate change, ACW will address this pressing crisis through cooperation and forward-thinking initiatives to drive transformative change.