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Climate Change
UN officials urge swift action to tackle El Niño-induced extreme weather
Top UN officials called on Monday for swift action to combat the El Niño extreme weather events that are currently…
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Climate Change
Climate action ‘cannot trample over the poor’, says Guterres, launching new initiative to protect key minerals for clean energy transition
The UN Secretary-General on Friday launched an initiative focusing on ensuring fairness, sustainability and respect for human rights throughout the…
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Climate Change
UN chief calls for all hands on deck at Climate Promise 2025 launch
Top UN officials launched a fresh global campaign to tackle the climate emergency on Tuesday, with social media influencers, Indigenous…
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Climate Change
Earth Hour: Lights off, climate action on
The largest global environment movement is happening on Saturday, when the UN invites people around the world to shut the…
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Economic Development
With 783 million people going hungry, a fifth of all food goes to waste
While a third of humanity faces food insecurity, an equivalent of one billion meals go to waste every day, a…
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Economic Development
Records smashed – new WMO climate report confirms 2023 hottest so far
Records were once again broken for greenhouse gas levels, surface temperatures, ocean heat and acidification, sea level rise, ice cover…
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Human Rights
Earth’s ‘life support system’ is being destroyed by global business paradigm, UN expert warns
The UN independent expert on human rights and the environment on Wednesday called for an urgent and radical shift in…
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