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The world is falling short on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and in efforts to adapt to the changing climate. Actions and support to developing countries remain insufficient as climate risks grow and impacts increasingly devastate the lives and livelihoods of vulnerable countries and communities. Moreover, for some people and in some places, it is too late to attempt to adapt to…

COP27 is the next meeting of 198 countries that have signed the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change to be held in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, on 6-18 November 2022. The UN and the international civil society bodies are urging the world’s industrialised nations to ‘lead by example’ by taking ‘bold and immediate actions’. Egypt, the host for COP27, has included compensation…

What’s the context? From reducing temperatures to stopping disease, forests play a bigger role than just cutting emissions to combat climate change Forests are world's biggest land-based carbon absorbers Rainfall stabilisation, cooling among other benefits Deforestation threatens global food and water security LONDON - From the Amazon…

Meetings Coverage General Assembly Second Committee Seventy-seventh Session, 10th & 11th Meetings (AM & PM) GA/EF/3569 10 October 2022 The Second Committee (Economic and Financial) tackled the issue of sustainable development today, with Csaba Kőrösi (Hungary), President of the seventy-seventh session of the General Assembly, setting the…

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, Nov 22 2022 (IPS) - COP 27 delivered on what was the ‘litmus test’ for its success – consensus on the establishment of a fund on loss and damage. What seemed impossible was made possible, largely due to the unity of the G77 and China and the role of the Egyptian Presidency. Also important were efforts by civil society groups who put pressure on the United States, the main…

Water scarcity and drought, climate change, land degradation and biodiversity loss are key drivers of current and future global crises. We must act on all these interconnected crises concurrently. The world has a choice. Either we continue with the current nature-destructive path and lose up to half of the global GDP by 2050, or we take a sustainable land management approach, which gives us…