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Funding Frustrations Plague Africa’s Great Green Wall

May 23, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on Funding Frustrations Plague Africa’s Great Green Wall

ABIDJAN, Côte d’Ivoire, May 23, 2022 (ENS) – “We all play a role in the common fight against climate change and land degradation, recognizing that a healthy and safe environment [...]

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Governments Agree to Draft Global Plastic Pollution Treaty

March 3, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on Governments Agree to Draft Global Plastic Pollution Treaty

NAIROBI, Kenya, March 3, 2022 (ENS) – To tackle plastic pollution accumulating across the globe, governments at the UN Environment Assembly here Tuesday approved the start of talks later this [...]

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New UN Climate Change Report “An Atlas of Human Suffering”

March 1, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on New UN Climate Change Report “An Atlas of Human Suffering”

BERLIN, Germany, March 1, 2022 (ENS) – “Today’s IPCC report is an atlas of human suffering and a damning indictment of failed climate leadership,” declared UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres after [...]

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World Wetlands Day: Guarding the ‘Most Threatened Ecosystem’

February 2, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on World Wetlands Day: Guarding the ‘Most Threatened Ecosystem’

GENEVA, Switzerland, February 2, 2022 (ENS) – In 2020 wildfires destroyed 30 percent of the Pantanal, South America’s largest wetland extending across Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay. For the last 60 [...]

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Philippines Face Holiday Recovery From Typhoon ‘Odette’

December 25, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Philippines Face Holiday Recovery From Typhoon ‘Odette’

MANILA, Philippines, December 25, 2021 (ENS) – More than 100 towns in areas devastated a week ago by Typhoon Odette, internationally known as Typhoon Rai, have no electricity this Christmas. [...]

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Women Sweep UN’s 2021 Champions of the Earth Awards

December 23, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Women Sweep UN’s 2021 Champions of the Earth Awards

NAIROBI, Kenya, December 23, 2021 (ENS) – Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley has been awarded the 2021 Champions of the Earth Award, the United Nations’ highest environmental honor, for her [...]

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Youth Urgency Influenced COP26 Climate Negotiations

November 15, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Youth Urgency Influenced COP26 Climate Negotiations

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GLASGOW, Scotland, November 15, 2021 (ENS) – Young people have long fought at the forefront of social justice movements and environmental justice is no exception. Youth roles [...]

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UN Climate Action Award Winners Offer Leadership, New Ideas

October 10, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on UN Climate Action Award Winners Offer Leadership, New Ideas

BONN, Germany, October 11, 2021 (ENS) – Ahead of the pivotal United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP 26, in Glasgow in November, winners of the 10th anniversary UN Global Climate [...]

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UN Climate Week Yields Energy Uplift for a Billion People

September 26, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on UN Climate Week Yields Energy Uplift for a Billion People

NEW YORK, New York, September 26, 2021 (ENS) – Commitments of US$400 billion in new finance and investment to increase renewables and access to electricity and clean cooking techniques were [...]

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Security Council Sees Climate Change as a ‘Risk Multiplier’

September 23, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Security Council Sees Climate Change as a ‘Risk Multiplier’

NEW YORK, New York, September 23, 2021 (ENS) – “The climate crisis isn’t coming. It’s already here,” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told the United Nations Security Council [...]

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Companies Pledge Millions to End World Hunger by 2030

September 22, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Companies Pledge Millions to End World Hunger by 2030

GENEVA, Switzerland, September 22, 2021 (ENS) – Forty-two companies have pledged a promising US$345 million to contribute to ending global hunger as part of a new initiative led by key [...]

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Biden to UN: We Stand At an ‘Inflection Point in History’

September 21, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Biden to UN: We Stand At an ‘Inflection Point in History’

NEW YORK, New York, September 21, 2021 (ENS) – UN Secretary-General António Guterres today welcomed important commitments made towards climate action by the world’s two largest economies, the United States [...]

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Cash Prizes to Reward Best Photos of European Climate Change

July 11, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Cash Prizes to Reward Best Photos of European Climate Change

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, July 11, 2021 (ENS) – The European Environment Agency is inviting photographers to capture what climate change looks like in Europe and how Europeans are coping with it [...]

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UN Head: ‘We Still Have Time’ to Heal the Earth

June 6, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on UN Head: ‘We Still Have Time’ to Heal the Earth

NEW YORK, New York, June 6, 2021 (ENS) – “We are ravaging the very ecosystems that underpin our societies,” United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres warned in his message for World [...]

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Invaluable: Waters Clean Enough to Drink

March 22, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Invaluable: Waters Clean Enough to Drink

NEW YORK, New York, March 22, 2021 (ENS) – Clean drinkable water is rare and precious. Of the waters that cover 70 percent of the Earth’s surface, roughly 97 percent [...]

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Building a ‘World That Works for Women’

March 8, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Building a ‘World That Works for Women’

WASHINGTON, DC, March 8, 2021 (ENS) – “Simply put, our world does not yet work for women as it should,” Vice President Kamala Harris today told the European Parliament on [...]

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Emergency or Not? Peoples’ Climate Vote Polls 1.2 Million

January 27, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Emergency or Not? Peoples’ Climate Vote Polls 1.2 Million

 

NEW YORK, New York, January 27, 2021 (ENS) – “Urgent climate action has broad support amongst people around the globe, across nationalities, age, gender and education levels,” declared United [...]

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World Leaders Reach for Climate Adaptation Strategies

January 26, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on World Leaders Reach for Climate Adaptation Strategies

 

THE HAGUE, The Netherlands, January 26, 2021 (ENS) – As Earth’s climate heats up, a new international coalition is forming to tackle the impacts of global climate change, UK [...]

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Leaking Oil Tanker Abandoned Off Yemen a Red Sea Risk

November 17, 2020 News Editor Comments Off on Leaking Oil Tanker Abandoned Off Yemen a Red Sea Risk

 

NEW YORK, New York, November 17, 2020 (ENS) – Technical experts must be granted immediate access to a rusting oil supertanker threatening an environmental calamity in the Red Sea, [...]

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UN Virtual Climate Dialogues to Fill COP26 Gap

October 27, 2020 News Editor Comments Off on UN Virtual Climate Dialogues to Fill COP26 Gap

 

BONN, Germany, October 27, 2020 (ENS) – The Climate Dialogues, a series of virtual climate change events, will be offered by the United Nations from November 23 to [...]

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