The United Nations Environment Programme has issued their Emissions Gap Report 2020: An Inflection Point which shows that, despite a dip in greenhouse gas emissions from the COVID-19 economic slowdown, the world is still heading for a catastrophic temperature rise … Continue reading →
United Nations Climate Change and the UK and Italian Governments announced on 1 April that the 26th Conference of Parties due to be held in Glasgow in November (COP26) has been postponed due to COVID-19. Dates for a rescheduled conference … Continue reading →
On 23 September 2019, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) published a report on The Global Climate in 2015-2019 to inform the United Nations Secretary-General’s Climate Action Summit due to be held on the same day in New York. The report … Continue reading →
We, UNA Coventry, declare a Climate and Ecological Emergency The United Nations Association is independent of but supports the United Nations. The Coventry Branch promotes the aims of the UN, which include preventing a climate catastrophe, and work to make … Continue reading →
The UN Youth and Civil Society Pledge is one of the planned outcomes of the UN Secretary-General’s Climate Action Summit to be held in New York on 23 September 2019. UN member states, regions and cities would pledge to consult … Continue reading →
Officials from Saudi Arabia, the United States and Iran allegedly cast doubt on UN scientists’ findings and their recommendations at a UN meeting in western Germany, according to a report in Deutsche Welle. The climate talks ended with little progress … Continue reading →
The One UN Climate Change Learning Partnership (UN CC:Learn) is a collaborative initiative of more than 30 multilateral organizations supporting countries to design and implement systematic, recurrent and results-oriented climate change learning. The initiative was launched at the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Change Summit. UNCCLearn believes that every school … Continue reading →
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is an international environmental treaty whose objective is to “stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system”. UNFCCC is … Continue reading →