Tag: UN climate

• Thursday, August 8th 2019 - 22:50 UTC

  World food security increasingly at risk due to 'unprecedented' climate change impact, new UN report warns

  

  More than 500 million people today live in areas affected by erosion linked to climate change, the UN warned on Thursday, before urging all countries to commit to sustainable land use to help limit greenhouse gas emissions before it is too late.

• Monday, May 13th 2019 - 09:23 UTC

  UN Guterres on tour of Pacific islands threatened by rising sea levels caused by climate change

  

  United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has kicked off a major United Nations push for progress on what he calls the defining issue of our time: climate change. Guterres traveled to New Zealand on Sunday, from where he is set to visit several Pacific islands where rising sea levels are threatening the very existence of those small countries.

• Monday, December 3rd 2018 - 06:34 UTC

  UN chief welcomes G20 commitment to fight climate change

  

  UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, has welcomed the declaration released on Saturday at the conclusion of the 2018 G20 meeting of the world’s leading economies, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, which reaffirms a commitment to raise ambition in the fight against climate change.

• Tuesday, October 2nd 2018 - 09:12 UTC

  NASA scientists solve mysteries of the Earth's rotation wobbling

  

  Using satellite data on how water moves around Earth, NASA scientists have solved two mysteries about wobbles in the planet's rotation - one new and one more than a century old. The research may help improve our knowledge of past and future climate.

• Saturday, April 23rd 2016 - 07:56 UTC

  Ban Ki moon message on Mother Earth Day 2016: Trees for the Earth

  

  This year, Earth Day coincides with the signing ceremony for the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, which takes place at UN Headquarters in New York. The Agreement was adopted by all 196 Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change at COP21 in Paris on 12 December 2015.

• Monday, November 30th 2015 - 07:03 UTC

  What I expect from the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris

  

  By Ban Ki-Moon (*) - For the nearly nine years that I have been Secretary-General, I have travelled the world to the front-lines of climate change, and I have spoken repeatedly with world leaders, business people and citizens about the need for an urgent global response

• Friday, November 22nd 2013 - 02:08 UTC

  Major environmental groups walk out of UN climate conference in Warsaw

  

  Several major environmental groups, including Greenpeace and WWF, have walked out of UN climate talks in Warsaw, Poland in protest at what they see as a lack of progress towards an international deal to curb rising global greenhouse gas emissions.