The Twelfth Conference of the Parties (COP12) to the Nairobi Convention concluded with 15 decisions aimed at accelerating action for the protection, management, and sustainable development of the ...

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is inviting Member States to submit expressions of interest to host the global ...

A new $US 78 million programme aims to restore 270,000 hectares of degraded land and improve the livelihoods of five million ...

Temperatures in cities are rising fast, and so are emissions from cooling – here are five ways to cool buildings more ...

When it comes to the rise of electric motorcycles, Kenya is one of the world leaders – but the country’s electric mobility ...

September marks three years since the adoption of the Global Framework on Chemicals, which aims to protect people and planet ...

Ending the food waste epidemic is both a food security imperative and a climate necessity, because rotting food produces the ...

Singapore, the United Arab Emirates and business leader Dong Mingzhu named inaugural Cool Leaders Brazil, Cambodia and Côte d'Ivoire launch an innovative challenge to cool communities through nature ...

While we often treat climate change and air pollution as separate issues, the reality is that they are tightly intertwined. Their causes overlap extensively, from the burning of fossil fuels to ...

This Assessment provides the most complete picture to date of the benefits and costs of integrated climate and clean air action, complemented by an empirically grounded analysis of how these benefits ...

Limiting global warming to 1.5°C remains a cornerstone of the Paris Agreement, yet under current policies and alternative near-term trajectories, exceedance of 1.5°C is now widely assessed as ...

Throughout human history, one truth has remained constant: our world runs on natural resources. From gold rushes to oil booms, access to and control of these resources has always been a central part ...