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Governments worldwide are deploying an unprecedented amount of fiscal support aimed at stabilising and rebuilding their economies, but only about 2 percent of this spending has been allocated to clean energy measures,...
How Countries Are Turning the Tide on Marine Plastic Pollution
More and more countries are joining the Clean Seas campaign to fight against marine litter and plastic pollution. Over 60 countries - both coastal and landlocked - have signed up to this...
Renewables are expanding quickly but not enough to satisfy a strong rebound in global electricity demand this year, resulting in a sharp rise in the use of coal power that risks pushing...
Securing Food, Protecting Biodiversity
The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, today told a gathering of experts, diplomats and senior officials that the agricultural world and the environmental...
EU Supports the Clean Energy Transition in Eastern Partnership Countries
The European Commission and its partners, the Council of European Energy Regulators (CEER), the Energy Community Secretariat (EnCS) and the International Energy Agency (IEA), are working to foster the low carbon and...
WMO Verifies one Temperature Record for Antarctic Continent and Rejects Another
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has recognized a new record high temperature for the Antarctic continent of 18.3° Celsius on 6 February 2020 at the Esperanza station (Argentina). However, it rejected an...
EBRD Announces Full Paris Alignment by end-2022
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development will from the end of 2022 align all its activities with the goals of the Paris Agreement, aiming to accelerate decarbonisation across its regions, supporting...
Indigenous Communities in Danger of Being Erased from the Map in Brazil
“We were already on this land before Brazil was Brazil”, said Eliseu Lopes, Indigenous leader.
After living on and fighting for their lands for centuries, the rights of Indigenous Peoples in Brazil are...
Joint Event Highlights Latest Actions to Tackle Methane Emissions in the Gas Sector
The Energy Community Secretariat, Gas Infrastructure Europe (GIE) and the Technical Association of the European Natural Gas Industry (MARCOGAZ) hosted a joint event on methane emissions in the gas sector. The event...
What is “Nature Positive” and Why is it the Key to our Future?
G7 leaders recently announced that “our world must not only become net zero, but also nature positive, for the benefit of both people and the planet.”
This represents a real paradigm shift in...
The second meeting of the Global Commission on People-Centred Clean Energy Transitions took place today, bringing together 25 high-profile energy and climate figures from around the world to assess how to ensure...
COVID-19 in Europe: Increased Pollution From Masks, Gloves and Other Single-use Plastics
The coronavirus pandemic has challenged European societies in many ways. The European Environment Agency’s (EEA) briefing, published today, analyses the pandemic’s effect on the use of certain single-use plastics products, which cause...
Soaring E-waste Affects the Health of Millions of Children, WHO Warns
Effective and binding action is urgently required to protect the millions of children, adolescents and expectant mothers worldwide whose health is jeopardized by the informal processing of discarded electrical or electronic devices...
Sustainability is in the Best Interests of Business
We are in the midst of the intensifying triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity and nature loss, and pollution and waste. A triple crisis that threatens human health, prosperity, equality and...
Clean Seas Campaign Promotes the Right to a Healthy Environment, Including Plastic-Free Oceans
On World Oceans Day 2021, UNEP’s Clean Seas Campaign renews its global efforts to tackle marine litter and plastic pollution, now with a focus on how individuals can use both national and...
Tourism Stakeholders Invited to Share Progress on Climate Action
UNWTO is inviting public and private stakeholders from around the world to take part in a Global Survey of Climate Action in Tourism and help identify frontrunning initiatives and opportunities to accelerate...
