40 Migratory Species Receive New or Upgraded UN Treaty Protection
Convention on Migratory Species, Bonn, Germany With populations of many migrant wildlife species in deepening decline, Parties to the Convention on […]
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From ‘Water Terrorist’ to ‘Nobel Prize of Water’: Exiled UN Scientist Named 2026 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate
UNU Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Toronto Prof. Kaveh Madani, architect of the ‘water bankruptcy’ framing of today’s acute
Businesses can either lead transformative change or risk extinction
Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), Bonn, Germany All businesses depend on and impact nature; All can
World enters “era of global water bankruptcy”; UN scientists formally define new post-crisis reality for billions
UNU Institute For Water, Environment and Health, Toronto Flagship report calls for fundamental reset of global water agenda as irreversible
Global drought hotspots report catalogs severe suffering, economic damage in 2023-2025
UN Convention to Combat Desertification, Bonn Food, water, energy crises, human tragedies in 2023-2025 detailed in sweeping analysis Fuelled by
Five deep changes urgently needed for a sustainable world and how to achieve them
UN University Institute for the Environment and Human Security, Bonn Amid deepening inequalities and escalating crises, including climate change, biodiversity
IPBES: Two reports light ways to sustainability
IPBES, Bonn 1) Nexus Assessment Report: Tackle together five interlinked global crises in biodiversity, water, food, health and climate change
Three-quarters of Earth’s land became permanently drier in last three decades: UN
UN Convention to Combat Desertification, Bonn Aridity: The ‘existential crisis’ redefining life on Earth; Five billion people could be affected
Biodiversity COP 16: Important Agreements Reached Towards Making Peace with Nature
United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, Montreal CALI, Colombia — The sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to
Rangelands’ ‘silent demise’ threatens climate, food, wellbeing of billions
UN Convention to Combat Desertification, Bonn Bonn/Ulaanbaatar – Degradation of Earth’s extensive, often immense natural pastures and other rangelands due to
Electronic waste generation rising 5 times faster than recycling: UN
UNITAR, Bonn, and International Telecommunication Union, Geneva A record 62 million tonnes (Mt) of e-waste was produced in 2022, Up
Drought data shows “an unprecedented emergency on a planetary scale”: UN
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, Bonn UNCCD launches ‘Global Drought Snapshot’ report at COP28 in collaboration with International Drought
Sand and dust storm frequency increasing in many world regions: UN
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, Bonn Two billion tons of sand and dust, equal in weight to 350 Great
UN Warns of 6 Risk Tipping Points Threatening the Environment, Security
UNU Institute for Environment and Human Security A United Nations University report finds that drastic changes are approaching if risks
Invasive Alien Species: Major Global Threats to Nature, Economies, Food Security, Human Health
IPBES, Bonn, Germany Key role in 60% of global plant and animal extinctions; Annual costs now >$423 Billion – have
UN: Bottled water masks world’s failure to supply safe water for all, can slow sustainable development
UNU-INWEH: UN University Institute for Water, Environment and Health), Hamilton, Canada The rapidly-growing bottled water industry can undermine progress towards
Large dams’ capacity seen dropping 26% by 2050 due to sediment: UN
UNU Institute For Water, Environment and Health, Hamilton, Canada Trapped sediment has robbed roughly 50,000 large dams worldwide of an
COP15: Nations Adopt 4 Goals, 23 Targets for 2030 in Landmark UN Biodiversity Agreement
UN Convention on Biological Diversity, Montreal By 2030: Protect 30% of Earth’s lands, oceans, coastal areas, inland waters; Reduce by
UN Announces Satellite-Based Global Methane Detection System
United Nations Environment Programme, Paris / Nairobi As part of global efforts to slow climate change by tackling methane, the
UN Biodiversity COP 15: What’s on the Table, What to Expect
United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, Montreal, Canada Key negotiating issues defined and detailed: A COP15 Primer On Nov. 10,
~5.3 Billion Mobile Phones will Become Waste in 2022
WEEE Forum, Brussels 2022 International E-waste Day slogan: ‘Recycle it all, no matter how small!’ Despite world-leading e-waste management, ~30%
Decisions based on narrow set of nature’s market values underpin biodiversity crisis
IPBES, Bonn, Germany More than 50 methods and approaches exist to make visible the diverse values of nature The way