New climate pledges only slightly lower dangerous global warming projections
Stories & Blogs UNEPNov 04, 2025(Press Release )A UN Environment Programme (UNEP) assessment of available new climate pledges under the Paris Agreement finds that the predicted global temperature rise over the course of this century has only slightly fallen, leaving the world heading for a serious esca
Global commitment to mercury reduction: UNEP's role in advancing the Minamata convention
Stories & Blogs UNEPNov 03, 2025(Speech )Mercury has served our industries, our medicines, even our mirrors — yet it has also poisoned rivers, silenced birds, and entered the blood of generations.
Slow climate adaptation threatening lives and economies
Stories & Blogs UNEPOct 29, 2025(Press Release )Amid rising global temperatures and intensifying climate impacts, a yawning gap in adaptation finance for developing countries is putting lives, livelihoods and entire economies at risk, according to the Adaptation Gap Report 2025: Running on Empty.
Ahead of UNGA, global experts investigate how inequalities are making the world more vulnerable to pandemics
Stories & Blogs UNAIDSSep 22, 2025(Story )In advance of the UN General Assembly High-Level Meetings, a group of experts met to review how inequality gaps within and between countries are impacting global health security.
UNAIDS welcomes US announcement to expand access to medicine to prevent HIV and urges greater global ambition to reach all in need.
Stories & Blogs UNAIDSSep 05, 2025(Press Release )UNAIDS welcomes the announcement by the US State Department that the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) will be supporting an initiative by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria to provide lenacapavir to up to 2 million people in
More time needed for plastic pollution treaty
Stories & Blogs UNEPAug 15, 2025(News )“It is clear that divides remain regarding core issues on production, plastic products, finance and voting. The world needs more time to come to full agreement on these critical issues’, said Inger Andersen -UNEP .
Emergency food assistance grinds to a halt in Nigeria amid surging insecurity and record hunger
Stories & Blogs WFPJul 23, 2025(News )Without immediate funding, millions of vulnerable people will face impossible choices: endure increasingly severe hunger, migrate, or possibly risk exploitation by extremist groups in the region.
Millions risk losing access to humanitarian food assistance amid funding slowdown in South Sudan
Stories & Blogs WFPJul 22, 2025(News )Half the population of South Sudan – 7.7 million people – are facing severe hunger.
Green Climate Fund and UNEP boost climate adaptation with USD 120 million for new projects.
Stories & Blogs UNEPJul 02, 2025(Press Release )The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has approved over USD 120 million in new funding to strengthen climate resilience in Ghana, the Maldives, and Mauritania.
WFP expands footprint in Khartoum as families starts to return to devastated capital.
Stories & Blogs WFPJun 10, 2025(News )The needs are immense. We saw widespread destruction, limited access to water, healthcare, and electricity, and a cholera outbreak.