WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In accordance with health guidance from the CDC, WHO and other health authorities, we have decided to cancel Innovate4Climate (I4C) 2020 from taking place in Barcelona, Spain on…
Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) is collaborating with the Co-Creation Hub (CcHUB), the leading technology innovation centre in Africa, to launch a call, for innovative…
Crucial UN conference will be delayed until next year as a result of the coronavirus crisis.
The UN climate talks due to be held in Glasgow later this year have been postponed as governments around…
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The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs launched a Consolidated Global Humanitarian Appeal to support approximately 40 vulnerable countries in fighting COVID-19.
Food reserves in Nyandarua County are running low following the locust invasion that hit the agriculture-rich region, with some sectors recording a yield drop of up to 75 percent.
By March 20, the…
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The Presidents of the UNGA and ECOSOC stressed the need for maximum transparency and inclusiveness as meetings increasingly take place in virtual, remote formats.
They also updated…
Japan has laid out its plans to tackle greenhouse gas emissions under the Paris agreement in the run-up to UN climate talks this year, becoming the first large economy to do so.
But its proposals…
Exclusive: Mass bleaching seen along Great Barrier Reef could mark start of global-scale event, expert warns
Rising ocean temperatures could have pushed the world’s tropical coral reefs over a…
Spanish power group Iberdrola SA (BME:IBE) on Monday (30 March) announced plans for two floating wind demonstration projects, including a 10-MW-plus pilot in Norway.
In the Scandinavian country,…
UN Climate Change News – Effective today, the UN Climate Change (UNFCCC) Secretariat is operating according to a new structure, as part of an organizational change initiative to overhaul the…
The Biscay Marine Energy Platform (BiMEP) has been authorised to install and and trial new floating wind technologies at its facilities.
The Biscay Marine Energy Platform (BiMEP), located off the…
COVID-19 has suspended normality across the globe. With everyone's attention now focused on fighting the virus, what does this mean for the fight against climate change?
The pandemic is changing how…
We are facing a global health crisis unlike any in the 75-year history of the United Nations — one that the UN Secretary-General António Guterres said is “attacking societies at their core, claiming…
Somali government has banned international flights over COVID-19 fears, affecting imports of the stimulant from Kenya.
Mogadishu/Nairobi - Halima Ali Mohamud, a widow, depends on a red-stemmed,…
The world’s biggest developer of offshore wind farms is weighing nearly $13 billion worth of projects in Taiwan, saying that so far the coronavirus outbreak hasn’t shifted its optimism about the…
European Union leaders have agreed to make the massive economic measures they’re planning in response to the coronavirus match up with the continent-wide Green Deal they adopted not long before the…
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. will suspend in principle new loans for coal-fired thermal power plants, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned. The move is aimed at showing its consideration for the…