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UN General Assembly adopts resolution seeking to fill gaps in international environmental law
The UN General Assembly today agreed to take the first step toward considering whether a new international instrument was needed to address gaps between international environmental agreements. By a vote of 143-6, with six countries [...]
Urgency Underlined as Bonn Climate Talks Close
UN Climate Change News 10 May, 2018 – Against the backdrop of a record hot April in the host country of Germany, governments are concluding two weeks of talks aimed at preparing the Paris Agreement’s [...]
UN forum to coordinate global efforts to address worsening water shortages
With extreme weather costing hundreds of billions a year and fears that by 2050, one in four people will be living in a country affected by severe water shortages, a global conference got underway on [...]
UN experts urges Poland to ensure unrestricted ‘civic space’ during climate talks
Poland’s new law designed to address safety concerns during the United Nations climate change conference to be held there later this year could infringe on the privacy of environmentalists and curtail their rights to protest [...]
‘Bad’ fats targeted in new global health guidelines
People everywhere need to cut down on their consumption of artery-clogging fatty foods, the World Health Organization (WHO) is urging, in a new report released on Friday. The initiative is a bid to prevent some [...]
Hottest April day ever recorded – maybe: UN weather watchdog
Deadly storms in India and record temperatures in Pakistan are an indication that more extreme weather events are happening globally owing to climate change, United Nations weather experts said on Friday. Amid flash-floods in [...]
Mental health ‘neglected issue’ but key to achieving Global Goals, say UN chiefs
Mental health remains one of the most neglected global health issues, even though it is critical to the achievement of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by world leaders, top United Nations officials have [...]
90 per cent of the planet is breathing in polluted air – World Health Organization
Air pollution claims seven million lives a year, UN health experts said on Wednesday, amid new data showing that the problem affects nine out of ten people worldwide. In a call for Member States [...]
Business Demonstrates Bold Action at Paris Agreement Progress Talks in Bonn
UN Climate Change News, Bonn, 2 May 2018 – Organizers of the Global Climate Action Summit (GCAS) taking place this September in San Francisco have today provided new evidence of how cities, states, regions, businesses [...]
Can science and technology really help solve global problems? A UN forum debates vital question
Science and technology offer part of the solution to climate change, inequality and other global issues, a United Nations official said on Tuesday, spotlighting the enormous potential these fields hold for achieving humanity’s common goal, [...]