While climate change poses a number of risks to vulnerable communities and businesses around the world, many opportunities are unfolding…
UN News Centre: Representatives of small island States took to the podium at the General Assembly today to exhort the…
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Whilst changing climatic conditions may be exacerbating the growing number of mega-fires round the world, these fires may also themselves…
Climate change bringing floods and drought, growing biofuel demand and national policies to protect domestic markets could boost global food…
Large amounts of phosphorus, a crucial fertilizer, are discharged into oceans as result of inefficiencies in farming and a failure…
The United Nations’ top climate change official said on Tuesday that food shortages and rising prices caused by climate disruptions…
UNITED NATIONS — The process used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to produce its periodic assessment reports has…
The 3rd Commission of the 64th General Assembly of the United Nations made history today by overwhelmingly adopting the draft…
Mother Earth — our only home — is under pressure. We are making progressively unreasonable demands on her, and she…
Case Studies on Moving Towards a Low Carbon Economy United Nations Environment Programme
Supporting countries in meeting the climate change challenge
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As the world warms, how different societies fare in dealing with rising seas and changing weather patterns will have as…
Climate change is the defining human development challenge of the 21st Century. Failure to respond to that…
Allowing for migration—both within and between countries—has the potential to increase people’s freedom and improve the lives of millions around…
COP15: Droughts, acidic oceans and melting glaciers are signs of accelerated global warming, a United Nations Environment Program report said…
The pace and scale of climate change may now be outstripping even the most sobering predictions of the last report…
Gather a hundred heads of state in the same place, get them talking privately among themselves and hope a global…
Hamburg, New York, Copenhagen, Mexico City and Nairobi are among the cities…
WATER IS ESSENTIAL FOR LIFE. Water is crucial for sustainable development, including the preservation of our natural environment and the…
According to the report, active participation of all countries in tackling the climate challenge will only come about if developing…
It is not a failure if the UN climate conference in December does not sign a final deal, says UN…
Daejeon (Republic of Korea), 20 August 2009 – Young people from around the globe today called on world leaders to…
The world’s largest economies have “clearly ignored” the findings of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning United Nations scientific body that evaluates…
An effort on the scale of the Apollo mission that sent men to the Moon is needed if humanity is…
BBC: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has criticised leaders of the G8 industrial nations for failing to make deeper commitments…
The PREVIEW Global Risk Data Platform is a multiple agencies effort to share spatial data information on global risk from…
The Report was coordinated by the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) Secretariat, in collaboration with the United…
Unless aggressive measures are taken to halt global warming, the consequences for human migration and displacement could reach a scope…
The international community has long recognized that desertification is a major economic, social and environmental problem of concern to many…
UNEP Climate Neutral Network (CN Net) aims to assist those interested in achieving big cuts in greenhouse gas emissions to…
HOME is an ode to the planet’s beauty and its delicate harmony. Through the landscapes of…
To provide leadership and encourage partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and peoples…
World Environment Day, observed on June 5, coincides this year with the kick-off of…
About Seal the Deal!
The Campaign aims to encourage governments when they meet at COP 15 in Copenhagen this December to…
A comprehensive report documenting the global impact of climate change on human society today.
The report was launched in London on…
Mission:
The ISDR aims at building disaster resilient communities by promoting increased awareness of the importance of disaster reduction as an…
UN-Water is composed of representatives of 26 United Nations organizations. United Nations organizations include those responsible for major funds and…
The United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF), a subsidiary body with the main objective to promote “… the management, conservation…
Mobilizing and re-focusing the global economy towards investments in clean technologies and ‘natural’ infrastructure such as forests and soils is…
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Quick facts
* A natural blanket of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere keeps the planet…
About UNite to Combat Climate Change
UNite to Combat Climate Change urges world leaders to reach an inclusive, comprehensive and ratifiable…
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Serving both developed and developing…
Kampagnen er startet af UN som optakt til klimatopmødet -COP15- i København, december 2009.
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UNWATER har lavet filmen om Nilen i anledning af vandets dag den 22. marts 2009.
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UNEP – United Nations Environment Program – har produceret en lang række kortfilm om gobal warming . Vælg selv en…
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Paint for the Planet was an exhibit and auction of children’s art which launched the global United Nations campaign “UNite…
