To Thrive Amid Climate Change, We Must Turn to Agriculture for Solutions
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) released its "State of the Global Climate 2023" report this week, with information from the...
ICJ to Rule on States’ Climate-related Obligations: How Did We Get Here?
Do countries have an obligation to protect our climate for the well-being of people living today? What about the well-being...
Reduce Resource Use Growth While Growing Economy
The UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) International Resource Panel (IRP) has published the second edition of its Global Resources Outlook. The...
Governments’ Role in Regulating and Using AI for the SDGs
The UN Secretariat has published a paper prepared by members of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Committee of...
Progress Report Projects 32-year Delay in Achieving SDGs in Asia-Pacific
The UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) has launched its annual SDG progress report, which...
Maximizing Progress on the 2030 Agenda
The world has crossed the halfway point of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its SDGs. The many commitments...
How to Shift to, Grow, and Build Circular Economy
The 2024 edition of the Circularity Gap Report, published by Circle Economy in collaboration with Deloitte, finds that global circularity...
2024 Growth to Slow Down, Inflation to Decline
The United Nations (UN) Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) issued the 2024 edition of its flagship World Economic...
Wicked Games: How Playing With Toys Can Expose Children to Harmful Chemicals
When it comes to exposure to chemicals of concern (CoC), children are one of the most vulnerable populations due to...
Will International Carbon Markets Finally Deliver?
Article 6 of the 2015 Paris Agreement details how countries can cooperate to achieve their greenhouse gas emission reduction targets, as set...
Why We Need a Transformative Circular Economy
Circular Economy (CE) is widely recognized as the new economic model aiming to maintain the value of materials, parts, and...
We Are on Course for a Very Dangerous Amount of Warming — But There Is Still Time to Change Course
On December 3, an event at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP28) conference highlighted findings from the United Nations Environment...
