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- The United Nations Secretariat has adopted a new 10-year Climate Action Plan aimed at transforming its operations to achieve a 45 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and sourcing 80 per cent of electricity from renewable energy…
- Major announcements by government and private sector leaders at the United Nations Climate Action Summit on 23 September boosted climate action momentum, and demonstrated growing recognition that the pace of climate action must be rapidly…
- The landmark new report, which will be presented to the UN Climate Action Summit, underlines the glaring ‚and growing ‚gap between agreed targets to tackle global warming and the actual reality.
- The latest edition of the UN's annual Greening the Blue report, which provides a snapshot of the UN System's environmental impacts throughout 2018 and the activities underway to reduce them, shows that the UN emitted 2 million tonnes of…
- This initiative is part of a global campaign against plastic pollution, launched by Maria Fernanda Espinosa, UN General Assembly president, in December 2018.
- This year's theme of World Environment Day - Air Pollution - was observed at the UN Gigiri Compound in Nairobi on 7 June 2019 (5 June being a public holiday in Kenya to celebrate the end of the Holy month of Ramadhan).