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Climate change: No ‘credible pathway’ to 1.5C limit, UNEP warns |

·October 27, 2022·2 min read

There’s “no credible pathway to 1.5C in place” today, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) insisted in a new report, despite legally binding promises made at the 2015 Paris Climate Conference to prevent average temperatures rising by more than 1.5C above pre-industrial levels. Uncomfortable truth “This report tells us in cold scientific terms what...

Climate change: CO2 and methane in our atmosphere reach record levels |

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·October 26, 2022·5 min read

The agency’s yearly Greenhouse Gas Bulletin warns of the biggest year-on-year jump in methane concentrations in 2021 since systematic measurements began nearly 40 years ago. While the reason for the unprecedented increase is still unclear, it seems to be a result of both biological and human-induced processes according to the...

UNFPA global innovation awards: 10 projects that will change lives of women and girls |

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·August 8, 2022·2 min read

The challenge was financed by UNFPA’s Equalizer Accelerator Fund, and implemented in cooperation with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), and the International Trade Centre. Entrants were given the incentive of a cash prize which would allow them to expand their ideas from the test stage, to...

Champion young people as ‘drivers of change’, UN chief urges |

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·July 17, 2022·3 min read

From climate change to conflicts to persistent poverty, young people are “disproportionately impacted by interlinked global crises,” his Youth Envoy, Jayathma Wickramanayake, told a commemorative event in New York, speaking on behalf of the UN chief. “Today, we highlight the importance of transforming youth skills for the future of work,”...

Climate change: More fossil fuel investment, just ‘delusional’, warns Guterres |

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·June 14, 2022·2 min read

António Guterres was speaking at the Sixth Austrian World Summit on the climate crisis, convened by the Austrian Government and former Governor of California and Hollywood actor turned climate activist, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Mr. Guterres repeated his call for G20 leading economies to “dismantle coal infrastructure, with a full phase-out by...