BELEM, Brazil, December 10, 2025 (ENS) – This year’s annual United Nations’ 2025 Climate Change Conference, COP 30, convened exactly one month ago in the Brazilian city of Belém as political tensions around the world hit new levels, and planetary temperatures spiked. The year 2024 was the warmest on record at 1.55°C above pre-industrial levels. […]
“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. […]
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. […]
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