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- New climate pledges only slightly lower dangerous global warming projections
- World Environment Day 2025 mobilizes commitment, action to end plastic pollution globally
- 70 responses to biodiversity loss: the IPBES Nexus Assessment
- Nations must close huge emissions gap in new climate pledges and deliver immediate action, or 1.5C lost
- Landmark UN report: The world’s migratory species of animals are in decline, and the global extinction risk is increasing
- Looking back at top moments for the environment in 2023
- Exeter experts give verdict on COP28 deal
- UNEP Executive Director statement on the closing of COP28
- As climate impacts accelerate, finance gap for adaptation efforts at least 50% bigger than thought
- UN’s highest environmental honour celebrates innovative solutions to beat plastic pollution
- We are in this #TogetherForCleanAir
- First International Day of Zero Waste bolsters actions to address global pollution crisis
- Inadequate progress on climate action makes rapid transformation of societies only option
- Rewrite the future on World Clean Air Day 2022
- International Day for Biological Diversity: $43 million boost for developing countries’ efforts to reverse species loss
- David Attenborough receives the UN’s most distinguished environment award
- UK backs ambitious global action to tackle plastic pollution
- Historic day in the campaign to beat plastic pollution: Nations commit to develop a legally binding agreement
- Number of wildfires to rise by 50% by 2100 and governments are not prepared, experts warn
- Deadly wildfires, noise pollution, and disruptive timing of life cycles: UN report identifies looming environmental threats
- Transformative changemakers named UN's 2021 Champions of the Earth
- Step up climate change adaptation efforts or face huge disruption: UN report
- Comprehensive assessment on marine litter and plastic pollution confirms need for urgent global action
- UN offers science-based blueprint to tackle climate crisis, biodiversity loss and pollution
- Step up climate change adaptation or face serious human and economic damage – UN report
- World could lose coral reefs by end of century, UN environment report warns