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Colombian conflict survivors turn forest heroes in search of climate change solutions

·November 17, 2024·6 min read

This waterway, a silent witness to the turmoil of the municipality of Mapiripán, has seen it all – the wildlife trafficking, the coca harvests that fuelled conflict, the human bodies left behind amid a heinous massacre and the relentless erosion of the rainforest it once nourished. Now, Sandra hopes it...

World Cities Day calls for youth-led local change

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·November 1, 2024·1 min read

These pressing issues necessitate urgent action and World Cities Day, celebrated on October 31, offers a platform to reflect on the unprecedented challenges that they face. Designated by the United Nations General Assembly through resolution 68/239, it aims to elevate the international community’s focus to promote sustainable development and tackle the...

UN rights chief urges Bangladesh to sustain ‘unprecedented’ momentum for change

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·October 30, 2024·3 min read

The protests, which highlighted demands for human rights, accountability and social justice, must be met with meaningful reforms, High Commissioner Volker Türk urged. “This unique, unprecedented moment in the history of Bangladesh is the result of young men and women having taken to the streets – at great personal risk...

Water is ‘canary in the coalmine’ of climate change: WMO

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·October 7, 2024·2 min read

The State of Global Water Resources report released on Monday also highlights that over the last five years below-normal conditions for river flows have been recorded with less water reaching reservoirs.The reduction in supplies has reduced the amount of water available for communities, agriculture and ecosystems. Currently, 3.6 billion people...

WMO partnership to highlight damaging impact of climate change on winter sports

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·October 4, 2024·1 min read

The two organizations are joining forces to call attention to the extensive impacts of increasing global temperatures on snow and ice while producing measures to strengthen scientific and sports-related conversations. The partnership is set to begin ahead of the 2024/2025 winter season and will initially last for five years. ‘The tip...

Indian minister says ‘we can change the world for the better’

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·September 30, 2024·1 min read

“Conversations have become difficult, agreements even more so,” he said. “This is surely not what the founders of the UN would have wanted for us. Reforming multilateralism is, therefore, an imperative.” The General Assembly must ask itself “how has this come to pass?” he said. “Every change must begin somewhere,...

Climate change: ‘Graveyard of glaciers’ lays bare existential threat of melting ice

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·September 8, 2024·5 min read

Coinciding with the powerful and symbolic monument to the ravages of unchecked climate change, the ceremony on 17 August also saw the publication of The Global Glacier Casualty list of 15 extinct and endangered glaciers by Rice University in Texas – a driving force behind the whole project. According to scientists, global...

Investing in clean air can saves lives and combat climate change

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·September 7, 2024·2 min read

This year’s International Day for Clean air and Blue Skies, celebrated annually on 7 September, is focused on the theme ‘Invest in #CleanAirNow’ and highlights the economic, environmental and health benefits of investing in clean air. The Day was established in 2019 after the UN General Assembly noted how detrimental...

COP28: UN says staggering $7 trillion spent every year on investments that fuel climate change

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·December 9, 2023·3 min read

The report from the UN’s environmental wing, UNEP, also revealed that despite decades of calls for ending finance flows towards sectors that harm some of humanity’s most valuable assets, those investments currently account for a whopping 7 percent of global GDP. Saturday’s report launch comes as negotiations on the conference’s...

UN cites ‘alarming surge’ in climate change over the past decade as COP28 pushes for global emissions cuts

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·December 6, 2023·4 min read

Marked by record breaking land and ocean temperatures, the decade between 2011-2020 saw continued rising concentrations of greenhouse gasses that “turbo charged” dramatic glacier loss and sea-level rise, according to a new report from the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The report comes as the latest annual UN climate conference,...

Tackling health impacts of climate change and scaling up digital climate action in the spotlight at COP28

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·December 3, 2023·3 min read

Ahead of the first ever ‘Health Day’ at a UN climate conference, delegates signed onto a new declaration on climate and health and separately considered the role of digital technology can play in climate action. The UN World Health Organization (WHO) welcomed the new declaration, which aims to help accelerate...

Climate change risks upending global fight against malaria

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·November 30, 2023·3 min read

Releasing its 2023 World Malaria Report as nations gather at the UN climate change conference, COP28, the health agency warned that despite expanding access to malaria prevention, more people are getting sick with the disease. WHO documented 249 million cases in 2022, an increase of two million from 2021 and...