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As global temperatures records are smashed and greenhouse gas emissions reach new highs, a new report from the UN Environment Programme finds that current pledges under...

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – IPCC elections took place at the United Nations Office in Nairobi, Kenya, from 25 to 28 July and marked the end of the sixth...

The governing body of the World Meteorological Organization, the World Meteorological Congress, has unanimously approved the new “Global Greenhouse Gas Watch” that the Copernicus Monitoring Service (CAMS)...

Severe land degradation in Africa negatively impacts nearly half of all productive land, affecting well over 650 million people. Practices resulting in land...

National adaptation programmes of action (NAPAs) provide a process for Least Developed Countries (LDCs) to identify priority activities that respond to their urgent and immediate needs to adapt...

ClimateCost (the Full Costs of Climate Change) is a research project on the economics of climate change. The objective of the project is to advance knowledge in three areas: 1) Long-term targets...

Scientists have now devised new ways of comparing national greenhouse gas inventories with independent measurements taken from space.

The Conference of the Parties at its twenty-third session, held in Bonn in 2017, adopted decision 4/CP.23 on the "Koronivia joint work on agriculture", which requests the SBSTA and the SBI to jointly...

The COP26 summit will bring parties together to accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. More information

Focus of 2019 Summary for Policy Makers is on Agri-food chain and on Finance for Adaptation This year, Technical Expert Meetings around the globe—including regional meetings in Africa, Latin America...