Environment

Sink or swim: Can island states survive the climate crisis?

Photo: Webshot

 

31 July 2021  Climate and Environment

From electric dreams to supercharged reality: the road race to a clean energy future

UN/Joon Park      Formula E car at the 2021 New York race in Red Hook, Brookyln.

 

IUCN’s New “Green Status of Species” Measures Impact of Conservation Action

28 Jul 2021

Wed, 28 Jul 2021  LONDON, UK

Outstanding sites added to UNESCO World Heritage List

©UNESCO/Hossein Javadi;

UN climate science talks open amid heatwaves, floods and drought

UNDP Tuvalu

Support mangrove conservation, UNESCO chief says

UNDP/Yuichi Ishida

A woman plants mangrove trees in Timor Leste.
 

Together, we must tackle growing hunger, urges Guterres

WFP/Bruno Djoye

No pathway to reach the Paris Agreement’s 1.5˚C goal without the G20: UN chief

UN Women/Mohammad Rakibul Hasan

IUCN’s call for action on fast-deteriorating Great Barrier Reef backed, despite no danger listing

23 Jul 2021

Water-related hazards dominate list of 10 most destructive disasters

China Fire and Rescue         Rescuers pull villagers from flood waters in Xingyang city in China