Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from UNEP

Egypt Mobilizes Efforts to Support African Water, Food Security

Egypt is mobilizing efforts to support water and food security in Africa, calling on the international community to finance "climate adaptation" in the continent. The Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation, Hani Swailem, met in Kenya with the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Inger Andersen, to…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Azerbaijan sues Armenia for wartime environmental damage

Case brought under Bern convention on nature may set precedent for destruction of biodiversity in war

The Guardian - UK

Timeline: Half a century of oil spills in Nigeria’s Ogoniland

Since oil was discovered in commercial quantities in Nigeria in 1958, thousands of oil spill incidents have happened.

Al Jazeera

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Niger Delta decries slow cleanups, decades after oil spills

Residents say response slow, rehabilitation of Nigerian oil-rich state’s environment must speed up.

Al Jazeera

‘Afraid of the gun’: Military coup fuels Myanmar resource grab

Crisis triggered by the military takeover makes life even more dangerous for those fighting to protect the environment.

Al Jazeera

Nature needs $384 billion annually by 2025, U.N. says

Investments into protecting and better managing the world's ecosystems need to reach $384 billion a year by 2025, more than double their current levels, to guard against the threats of climate change and loss of natural resources, the U.N.'s environment watchdog said on Thursday.

Reuters

Energy transition must be fair

As Cambodia welcomes Asean heads of state to Phnom Penh for the 40th and 41st Asean Summits, we can expect the energy-hungry lights will be blazing and the air conditioners to hum across the capital. This meeting takes place at a critical time globally with an unprecedented energy crisis and…

Bangkok Post

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

UN calls on nations to 'urgently' boost climate funds

Paris (AFP) - Climate change impacts battering vulnerable countries threaten to outstrip efforts to adapt to global warming, the UN warned Thursday, with a "significant" amount of international funding help recycled from other purposes.

AFP

‘Climate carnage’: UN demands funding surge to save millions of lives

Secretary-general warns effects of global heating are outstripping the ability to adapt to them

The Guardian - UK

Nile is in mortal danger, from its source to the sea

Alty (Sudan) (AFP) - The pharaohs worshipped it as a god, the eternal bringer of life.But the clock is ticking on the Nile.

AFP

UN chief decries 'greenwashing'

Carbon neutrality goals are useless if not backed by action, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Thursday, stressing that the world cannot “afford any more greenwashing”.

Bangkok Post

Climate plans would allow up to 2.6C of global warming: UN

Paris (AFP) - Country climate pledges leave the world on track to heat by as much as 2.6 degrees Celsius this century, the United Nations said on Wednesday, warning that emissions must fall 45 percent this decade to limit disastrous global warming.

AFP

Climate crisis: UN finds ‘no credible pathway to 1.5C in place’

Failure to cut carbon emissions means ‘rapid transformation of societies’ is only option to limit impacts, report says

The Guardian - UK

Nord Stream leaks likely single largest methane release ever: UN

At least two massive underwater blasts caused this week’s damage to the Baltic Sea gas pipelines and methane leaks.

Al Jazeera

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Hindu

NCC, UNEP sign MoU to tackle plastic pollution

The MoU was signed between Director-General NCC Lt. Gen. Gurbirpal Singh and Resident Representative, UN World Food Programme Bishow Parajuli in the presence of Defence Minister Rajnath Singh

Reuters

Nigeria's Ogoniland is dirtier than estimated despite landmark oil cleanup

Pollution in Nigeria's Ogoniland, which has been part of a landmark cleanup effort involving the United Nations Environmental Programme, could be worse than it previously estimated, a group monitoring the project said in a statement this week.

The Guardian - US

Plastic can take hundreds of years to break down – and we keep making more

Americans throw away an estimated 2.5m plastic water bottles an hour. We need international cooperation to protect our planet and our health

Tribune News Service

How reaching for the clothes in your closet helps fight climate change

A small, simple and cheap way to prevent some future climate pollution is to wear the clothes already in your closet roughly twice as many times as you might have otherwise before tossing them.

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Hindu

Many hospitals, schools under flood threat, says KSDMA map

As per climate change-induced flood hazard norm, 168 hospitals, 1,878 schools face risk

Bangkok Post

Empty promises won't fix climate

Today marks the 50th year of the founding of World Environment Day (WED). An international meeting called Stockholm+50 is being organised by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to commemorate WED.

Daily Mirror

Warning Earth's next big catastrophe is shortage of SAND - as UN warns of 'consequences'

A new report says the amount of sand extracted from the Earth- said to be around 50 billion tonnes- is unsustainable and could plunge the planet into crisis if it is not changed

Wales Online

Welsh morning headlines: News, Ukraine and sport as Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her 96th Birthday

She will also celebrate her Platinum Jubilee in the summer

The Hindu

U.N. report reference to Moradabad as among world’s noisiest cities may be flawed

A perusal of the UNEP research paper suggests no reference to Moradabad but mentions noise levels in Aurangabad, Chandigarh and Kolkata.

Radio France Internationale

UN environment meeting in Kenya: a chance to finally act?

The United Nations Environment Assembly is gathering for three days in Kenya’s capital to find holistic solutions to today’s environmental threats. The fight against plastic pollution is one of the key topics to be tabled with the hope governments will agree on a legally binding agreement to end plastic pollution.

AFP

Plastic treaty would be historic for planet: UNEP chief

Nairobi (AFP) - The world has a rare opportunity to clean up the planet for future generations by uniting behind an ambitious treaty to tackle plastic trash, the UN environment chief told AFP.

1 2 3

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Amnesty International

United Nations Environment Programme

13 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.