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UN and Partners Join Forces to Advance a Transformative Financial Architecture for the Ocean.

Stories & Blogs UNEPJun 08, 2025(Press Release )

A collective of United Nations agencies and global partners today launched the co-design process for One Ocean Finance.

New data shows that crops like wheat, coffee, beans and cassava could lose half of the best land for growing them by 2100.

Stories & Blogs FAOJun 05, 2025(News )

Findings come from FAO’s upgraded Adaptation, Biodiversity and Carbon Mapping Tool “ABC-Map”, further boosting capacity to assess and confront climate-related shocks.

Acute food insecurity and malnutrition rise for sixth consecutive year in world’s most fragile regions – new report.

Stories & Blogs FAOMay 16, 2025(Story )

In 2024, over 295 million people across 53 countries and territories faced acute hunger—an increase of almost 14 million people compared to 2023, while the number of people facing catastrophic levels of hunger reached a record high.

Desert locust movements in Northwest Africa raise concern amid spring breeding season.

Stories & Blogs FAOApr 29, 2025(News )

FAO calls to enhance monitoring and initiate early control measures in affected countries

With rainwater tanks and solar-powered pumps, Somalia aims to take on climate change.

Stories & Blogs UNEPApr 23, 2025(Story )

For much of the last decade, Somalia has tipped in and out of drought, with dry spells withering rivers, turning farms into dustbowls and forcing millions from their homes.

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.

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development (IGF) signed a Memorandum of Understanding during the 20th IGF Annual General Meeting (AGM)

Stories & Blogs UNEPNov 18, 2024(Technical Highlight )

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development (IGF) signed a Memorandum of Understanding during the 20th IGF Annual General Meeting (AGM)