António Guterres

Air/Climate

Protecting Earth’s Protective Ozone Layer: A Success Story

September 16, 2025 News Editor Comments Off on Protecting Earth’s Protective Ozone Layer: A Success Story

“Forty years ago, nations came together to take the first step in protecting the ozone layer – guided by science, united in action,” said United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres today, in honor of the day in March 1985 when 28 nations agreed on the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer, the parent treaty behind the Montreal Protocol. […]

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New UN Climate Report ‘Code Red for Humanity’

August 9, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on New UN Climate Report ‘Code Red for Humanity’

GENEVA, Switzerland, August 9, 2021 (ENS) – Climate change is widespread and rapidly intensifying, and some of the changes already in motion, such as continued sea level rise, are irreversible over hundreds to thousands of years, finds the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, released today. […]