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In New Year’s Message, Guterres urges countries to drastically slash emissions and ‘exit this road to ruin’

·December 30, 2024·1 min read

Reflecting on 2024, he stated that “hope has been hard to find”, with wars causing enormous pain, suffering and displacement, and inequalities and divisions fuelling tensions and mistrust. “And today I can officially report that we have just endured a decade of deadly heat,” he said. ‘No time to lose’...

COP29: Governments, industry must stop ‘lip-service’ on methane and slash emissions, says UNEP

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·November 17, 2024·2 min read

That message comes after a new UN report revealed that, over the past two years, a sophisticated system that detects significant methane leaks has sent 1,200 notifications to governments and businesses, but only one per cent of those notifications have been answered. “We now have a proven system to identify...

New UN ‘roadmap’ shows how to drastically slash plastic pollution

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·May 17, 2023·4 min read

“The way we produce, use, and dispose of plastics is polluting ecosystems, creating risks for human health and destabilizing the climate,” said UNEP Executive Director Inger Andersen. ‘Roadmap’ to slash plastic pollution “This UNEP report lays out a roadmap to dramatically reduce these risks through adopting a circular approach that...