Tag: United Nations

Greta Thunberg described COP26 climate talks as a “failure” as she addressed a crowd of activists in Glasgow.  “It should ...

“Never before has a UN member state disappeared. Now we are faced with the threat of losing many.” This statement ...

The Paris Agreement, adopted by 196 parties at COP 21 in  2015, saw world leaders coming together to make important ...

Mark Carney, former governor of the Bank of England, and the UN’s special envoy on climate action and finance, has ...

The world’s governments’ current plans to continue fossil fuel production put global temperatures far beyond 1.5 degrees, and well beyond ...

Daring Cities 2021, ICLEI’s global virtual forum on urban climate action, finished last week with closing remarks reflecting upon five ...

In the Sahel, an area known for its harsh and arid conditions, Cameroon's refugees are restoring land that was once ...

The UN Human Rights Council has declared that access to a clean and healthy environment is a human right, in ...

At a pre-COP summit designed to include and empower youth voices, activists used the platforms they were given to call ...

On Monday, ICLEI, a partner of Impakter, will be hosting Daring Cities 2021, a global virtual forum that aims to ...

The US Fish and Wildlife Service has announced that 22 animals and one plant have gone extinct. These animals will ...

Paraphrasing Tina Turner’s great song about love and secondhand emotions some would ask what does the UN General Assembly have ...