Tag: IISD

The BRICS bloc of developing countries, comprising Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, China, and South Africa, decided to expand their alliance ...

In 2022, G20 members spent USD 1.4 trillion to support fossil fuels and could raise an additional USD 1 trillion ...

Chemicals in plastics must be addressed as part of ongoing global action to combat plastic pollution, according to a new ...

The topic of artificial intelligence (AI) has been ubiquitous following the release of Open AI's ChatGPT language processing model in November ...

Preparations for the 2023 High-Level Political Forum for Sustainable Development (HLPF) next month are in full swing. This annual event marks a ...

The Group of 7 (G7) leaders from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK, and the US, together with the ...

The UN published a report by the UN Secretary-General, according to which the “high costs” of the COVID-19 pandemic, the ...

Climate change, the destruction of biodiversity, and the overall alteration of the environment constitute a major threat to the physical and mental health of ...

Investments in climate change mitigation continue to grow, driving the energy transition and rapid growth in net-zero technologies. At the ...

On March 28, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a historic resolution asking the International Court of Justice (ICJ)—the UN's principal ...

One year after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the country’s infrastructure has sustained extensive damage. Thousands of schools and health ...

Biodiversity loss and the degradation of ecosystems are accelerating, driven by a host of factors, including unsustainable resource extraction, demographic ...