Climate action must happen now — there are no second chances
For the next week or so, delegates from nations around the world will gather in Madrid for a critical set of meetings on our planet’s…
The president of an island nation on the frontline of climate change says it is in a "fight to the death" after freak waves inundated the capital.
Powerful swells averaging 5m (16ft) washed across…
UN Climate Change News, 2 December 2019 - The UN Climate Change Conference COP25 in Madrid (to 13 December) kicked off today, with urgent calls to make serious progress on climate action over the…
António Guterres, the United Nations secretary general, contrasted the “leadership” and “mobilisation” shown by the world’s youth on the climate emergency with the lack of action by governments,…
The Madrid Climate Change Conference - COP 25 - will bring the world together to consider ways to strengthen the implementation of the Paris Agreement. Taking place from 2 to 13 December in Madrid,…
Geneva– On the eve of a year in which nations are due to strengthen their Paris climate pledges, a new UN Environment Programme (UNEP) report warns that unless global greenhouse gas emissions fall by…
A UN report has urged global leaders to stage a dramatic scale-up of renewables deployment, the latest in a series of such warnings issued by world authorities ahead of next week’s climate talks.…
Glasgow has announced that they aim to be plastic free by 2030.
A new strategy by the Glasgow council has targeted the city to be free of unnecessary plastic by the year 2030 and phase out all…
The world’s use of coal-fired electricity is on track for its biggest annual fall on record this year after more than four decades of near-uninterrupted growth that has stoked the global climate…
Organisations such as Australian Industry Group and National Farmers’ Federation letter says greater private-sector action needed.
Industry, farming and investor groups say the federal government…
White House’ dangerous decision to leave Paris Agreement must be met with worldwide action to prevent climate catastrophe.
Today marks the earliest date a party to the Paris Climate Change Agreement…
WASHINGTON, DC, 4 November – The United States government’s move today to begin its formal withdrawal from the Paris Agreement is disappointing, but the 2015 international deal will survive, IETA…
20 October 2019, Dubai, United Arab Emirates – Today marks the official launch of the Regional Collaboration Centre Dubai, a collaboration between UN Climate Change and the World Green Economy…
After economic theorist Jeremy Rifkin predicted the rise of The Hydrogen Economy 17 years ago, history failed to cooperate with him. The US, then hooked on foreign oil and destined to run out of its…
NEW YORK, 24 September - International cooperation under a well-functioning Article 6 of the Paris Agreement could save as much as $250 billion per year by 2030, according to a new study. Experts…
In a statement today at the UN Secretary-General’s Climate Action Summit in New York, nine multilateral development banks (MDBs) announced plans to increase the global climate action investments they…
The UK Government has confirmed Glasgow as host of COP26.
The UK is bidding to secure the Presidency and host United Nations Conference of Parties (COP) summit over two weeks at the end of 2020, in…
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