MAPUTO — One year after Cyclone Idai left a trail of destruction across parts of Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi, nearly 100,000 people continue to live in makeshift shelters and are alarmingly…
Bonn, 6 March 2020 -The UN Climate Change secretariat, in close collaboration with all the other organizing partners, has decided to put Africa Climate Week in Kampala on hold. This is to ensure the…
The World Meteorological Organization Statement on the State of the Climate in 2019 will be released on Tuesday 10 March 2020 at a press conference with United Nations Secretary-General António…
Notification to Parties and Observer Organizations by UNFCCC Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa
I would like to inform Parties, observer States and Observer Organizations that after careful…
Hotels, farms and schools across Spain are putting up solar systems at an unprecedented clip to save money.
Regulatory changes have not only helped Spain reemerge as Europe’s biggest market for…
Oil companies have set long term carbon emissions targets but the scale of their ambitions means near-term action is required
Like New Year’s resolutions, oil companies are promising to go on…
A study has called into question the effectiveness of measures to clamp down on the illegal wildlife trade.
Critically endangered eels have been sold recently in Hong Kong stores, despite bans on…
Scientists monitoring the movements of the worst locust outbreak in Kenya in 70 years are hopeful that a new tracking programme they will be able to prevent a second surge of the crop-ravaging…
Empowerment, ahead of International Women's Day (8 March).
Check out our curated list of gender-related UN events this year. We also look at how gender equality is intrinsically linked to…
In the last few months, a number of questions have come in asking if NASA has attributed Earth’s recent warming to changes in how Earth moves through space around the Sun: a series of orbital motions…
New data from Carbon Brief has found that UK carbon emissions have dropped by 29 per cent in the last decade.
In 2019, Carbon Brief found that the UK’s CO2 emissions fell by 2.9%, bringing the total…
Renewable energy sources provided a record 61.2% of Germany’s net public electricity generation in February, according to figures provided by the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE),…
With the launch of streaming services from Disney and Apple, the rollout of 5G and the growth in cryptocurrencies, experts are warning about the impact this huge rise in data use could have on the…
Mongolia's vast grasslands cover about three-quarters of the country, where nomadic herdsmen have maintained traditions stretching back centuries. But this world is changing - fast.
About 70% of…
The Belgian capital is known for its terrible traffic. But in the city of the EU Green Deal, new plans aim to give the streets back to pedestrians and help residents counter the crisis of a warming…
Elizabeth Wanjiru Wathuti is a Climate and Environment Activist from Kenya who has been trying to raise awareness about environmental and climate issues of Kenya and Africa as a continent, stating…