Published by the United Nations [UN] Environment Programme Business leaders, scientists and policy-makers reflect on ways to enhance environmental sustainability Read the full article at: http://www.unep.org/NewsCentre/default.aspx?DocumentID=27088&ArticleID=36310&l=en
Published by the World Wildlife Fund America’s Arctic will be free of new offshore oil and gas drilling, at least for the next five years, and that’s good news for people and wildlife. Temperatures in the Arctic are warming faster than any other place on Earth, and melting sea ice is opening up access to the […]
Published by the World Wildlife Fund In November 2010, 13 tiger range countries came together and made an unprecedented pledge: to double the number of wild tigers by 2022. Mobilized by a century of dramatic decline, leaders convened in St. Petersburg, Russia to sign a declaration boosting tiger conservation efforts. This initial effort has led to […]
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Published by the United Nations [UN] Environment Programme – Drained and burned peatlands are responsible for up to 5 per cent of anthropogenic carbon emissions – Peat carbon stocks hold the equivalent of at least 60 per cent of all atmospheric carbon – 2015 Indonesian peat fires contributed to 100,000 premature deaths and cost US$ 16.1 […]
Published by the World Wildlife Fund Most Americans are familiar with the old folk song, Home on the Range, which paints a picturesque vision of sweeping grasslands where the buffalo roam, and deer and the antelope play beneath clear blue skies. Things have certainly changed a lot in the western United States since the early 1870s […]
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Published by the United Nations [UN] Environment Programme – International community has pledged to mobilize $100 billion a year in climate finance by 2020 – Up to $300 billion needed in adaptation finance from 2030; up to $500 billion by 2050 Read the full article at: http://www.unep.org/NewsCentre/default.aspx?DocumentID=27088&ArticleID=36304&l=en
Published by the United Nations [UN] Environment Programme Speech by Ibrahim Thiaw, UN Environment Deputy Executive Director at South-South Co-operation: CEL Announcement Read the full article at: http://www.unep.org/NewsCentre/default.aspx?DocumentID=27089&ArticleID=36303&l=en
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Published by the World Wildlife Fund An ideal day for Alex Waisimon begins just before sunrise. Still sleepy, he walks out the front door of his home in the Indonesian province of Papua and up the steps of the elevated hut he built behind his house a few years earlier. He comes alive when he climbs […]
Published by the United Nations [UN] Environment Programme UN Environment Links Great Apes’ Future to Sustainable Development Read the full article at: http://www.unep.org/NewsCentre/default.aspx?DocumentID=27088&ArticleID=36300&l=en
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Published by the United Nations [UN] Environment Programme Top UN officials call for action to protect environment in times of war Read the full article at: http://www.unep.org/NewsCentre/default.aspx?DocumentID=27088&ArticleID=36298&l=en
Published by the World Wildlife Fund Eleven months ago, nearly two hundred nations signed on to the first truly global agreement to curb climate change. And now that deal is officially entering into force. Known as the Paris Agreement, this unprecedented and essential plan aims to keep global warming to well below 2°C, or even 1.5°C. […]
Published by the United Nations [UN] Environment Programme Ambassador Marie G. Jacobsson Honored at Fourth Annual Al-Moumin Award and Distinguished Lecture on Environmental Peacebuilding Read the full article at: http://www.unep.org/NewsCentre/default.aspx?DocumentID=27088&ArticleID=36297&l=en
Published by the United Nations [UN] Environment Programme – World is still heading for temperature rise of 2.9 to 3.4℃ this century, even with Paris pledges -2030 emissions will be 12 to 14 gigatonnes above levels needed to limit global warming to 2℃ – Opportunities include enhanced pre-2020 action building on Cancun pledges, cost-effective energy efficiency […]