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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 [...]
United Nations
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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 [...]
Air/Climate
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’
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 [...]
At Risk
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
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 [...]
Gov/Politics
Youth Urgency Influenced COP26 Climate Negotiations
By Benjamin Seidman
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 [...]
Air/Climate
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 [...]
Energy
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 [...]
Air/Climate
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 [...]
Food
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 [...]
Gov/Politics
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
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
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
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’
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 [...]
Air/Climate
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 [...]
Air/Climate
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
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, [...]
Air/Climate
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 [...]