Climate Solutions

COVID-19 exposed the consequences of the failure to make sufficient progress on the Sustainable Development Goals and in implementing the Paris Agreement on climate change. We would have been in a better place if we had.

We must change course, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said, or we risk missing the point where we can avoid the “disastrous consequences for people and all the natural systems that sustain us.”

As we continue to tackle the pandemic, the enormity of the climate emergency can be daunting. What can one person or even one nation do on their own to reverse this challenge? Good news is that solutions do exist!

Climate Solutions

IPCC Video: Our Climate is our Future

All life on earth, from ecosystems to human civilization, is vulnerable to a changing climate. Unprecedented changes have already affected all forms of life in every part of the world. Read more.

IPCC report ‘a damning indictment of failed global leadership on climate’

UN scientists deliver a stark warning, saying that ecosystem collapse, species extinction, deadly heatwaves and floods are among the "unavoidable multiple climate hazards” the world will face over the next two decades due to global warming. Read more.

Nations agree to end plastic pollution

175 nations agree to develop a legally binding agreement on plastic pollution by 2024, prompting a major step towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions from plastic production, use and disposal. Read more.

Fossil fuels are a dead end, warns UN chief

In his statement on the latest IPCC report, Secretary-General António Guterres called for an urgent transition to renewable energy as well as vastly scaled up investments in adapting and building resilience to the worsening climate impacts. Read more

IPCC WGII Report

On 28 February 2022, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a major report on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability - packed with scientific information on the state of the planet, its ecosystems and habitats as well as an overview of the challenges and solutions associated with the growing climate risks seen around the world. Read more.

Action for nature

Follow the UN Environment Assembly, the world’s highest environmental decision-making body, addressing the world’s most pressing environmental challenges -- from climate change, to plastic pollution, biodiversity loss, chemical waste and more.

5 million climate actions

People everywhere are taking steps to be part of the solution to the climate crisis. More than 5 million actions have been logged through the ActNow campaign. Learn moreLog your actions through the mobile app

Frontiers 2022: Noise, Blazes and Mismatches

The UN Environment Programme’s latest Frontiers Report warns of intensifying environmental issues, including wildfires, urban noise pollution and phenological mismatches, that require greater attention. Read more

International Day of Women and Girls in Science

Norah Magero, a renewable energy expert from Kenya, explains why “women-led actions need to be sufficiently and equitably funded to achieve a just, green transition.” Read moreLearn more about the International Day.

Photocomposition: the photo of Vanessa Nakate, in black and white, in front of a red background. The African continent map is highlighted in her right side.

Vanessa Nakate: Climate change is about the people

Vanessa Nakate started her journey as a climate activist in 2018. The climate crisis has been one of the greatest threats affecting the lives of many Ugandans - and she became increasingly aware and concerned about communities particularly vulnerable to the crippling impacts of a warming planet.

UN chief calls for action to put out ‘5-alarm global fire’

“We must go into emergency mode against the climate crisis. We need an avalanche of action,” says UN Secretary-General António Guterres, laying out his priorities for 2022.” Read more.

2021 joins top 7 warmest years on record: WMO

The UN weather agency lists 2021 as one of the seven warmest years on record, with global temperatures rising more than 1°C above pre-industrial levels and edging closer to the limit laid out under the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change. Read more.

Why 2022 will matter for climate action

As the world picks up speed in its race against climate change and moves forward from the 2021 Glasgow Climate Change Conference, let’s look at ten key global events in 2022 that will shape critical conversations and influence public policy decisions around one of the most defining issues of our time. Read more.

COP26: Towards a more sustainable, low-carbon world

The Glasgow Climate Pact is the fruit of intense negotiations among almost 200 countries. What was agreed? Find out here. Read more.

UN environment award honours inspiring women leaders

The UN Environment Programme’s annual Champions of the Earth award, the United Nations highest environmental honour, recognizes the work of an all-female cohort of outstanding leaders - Prime Minister Mia Mottley of Barbados, the Sea Women of Melanesia, wildlife veterinarian Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, and environmental activist Maria Kolesnikova. Read more.