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Background The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 21 March the International Day of Forests in 2012 to celebrate and raise awareness of the importance of all types of forests. Countries are encouraged...
Background The estimated incidence of Down syndrome is between 1 in 1,000 to 1 in 1,100 live births worldwide. Each year, approximately 3,000 to 5,000 children are born with this...
Force for Good, a foundation promoting and advocating secure, sustainable and advanced development, today publishes its second annual Technology as a Force for Good report, “Technology Driving the Transition to...
Malaysia’s Braden Yong made the nation proud by being one of the selected youth environment activists to be invited to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28). Shedding light on the local floods...
Bloomberg is the first data provider to build a tool using a resource from the UN Environmental Programme Finance Initiative to enable global impact integration in portfolios Bloomberg announced the...
The abundance of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere once again reached a new record last year and there is no end in sight to the rising trend, according to...
Amplified by wildfires and desert dust fanned by climate change, more frequent heatwaves are leading to a sharp drop in air quality and human health, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)...
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child issued new guidance that calls for governments to take action to protect boys and girls in the face of the deepening...
Wastewater, long seen as an environmental and health hazard, possesses untapped potential as an alternative energy and clean water source to offset fertilizer use, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) said....
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday called for agreement to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 at crunch shipping talks in London this week and urged decarbonisation...
Governments from across Asia and the Pacific endorsed a UN resolution to take urgent action to combat climate change and its impact. They re-committed to immediately curb greenhouse gas emissions...
Iberdrola has presented its Climate Transition Plan to the United Nations to achieve zero net emissions by 2040 in response to the call of the UN Secretary General, following a...
António Guterres, UN Secretary-General, on Hope and Action The Challenge. Speaking at ECOSOC, the UN SG says ‘There is still hope, because we know what we need to do.” UN...
In a wide-ranging address that touched on the most critical issues of the times, UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged leaders gathered for the Annual Meeting to take urgent action. Taking...
About the Event What: The 2022 edition of the Report reveals the UN system accelerated efforts on environmental governance and environmental training in 2021. It highlights the 2021 environmental impacts of 307,000 personnel in 53...
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