Sand must be recognized as a strategic resource. This is the main recommendation of a new report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), which also calls for the development of an…
Brussels officials are being trained to meditate to help them tackle the climate crisis as part of a new wave of “applied mindfulness” that seeks to take the Buddhism-inspired practice “off the…
The focus of the opening day of the 17th session of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF17) was a high-level roundtable on the UNFF response to, role in, and expectations from forest-related…
On 28 February, four days after Putin launched the fossil-fuel funded invasion of Ukraine, the UN secretary general Antonio Guterres delivered a blistering barrage against world leaders for their…
For the UN Capital Development Fund, this year's ECOSOC Forum on Financing for Development (FFD) was a platform for UNCDF to display its wide expertise in a variety of areas in innovative finance:…
Some of the world’s most ancient buildings are being destroyed by climate change, as rising concentrations of salt in Iraq eat away at mud brick and more frequent sandstorms erode ancient wonders.
Yishan Wong made his name helping to scale Facebook (FB) and PayPal (PYPL) as a software engineer.
Now, the former Reddit CEO is applying the lessons of Silicon Valley to the world’s greatest…
As Russian forces bombard communities across Ukraine, the nation’s once-vibrant ecosystems are becoming scorched and scarred, rewinding decades of conservation work, according to Ukrainian climate…
Joint Statement by COP26 President Alok Sharma, COP27 President-Designate Sameh Shoukry and UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa
Today marks the publication of the…
Η παγκόσμια ημέρα περιβάλλοντος που καθιερώθηκε το 1974 από τα Ηνωμένα Έθνη, είναι φέτος αφιερωμένη στον αγώνα κατά των πλαστικών, με κεντρικό μήνυμα
«Αν δεν μπορείς να το ξαναχρησιμοποιήσεις, μην…