Attempts to deliver new global plastics treaty blocked by small group of petrostates, forcing negotiations to be extended into next year
UNEP calls on countries to significantly increase financing and policy focus on boosting resilience and adaptation to worsening climate impacts at COP29
UN report stresses that capping warming at 1.5C remains affordable and technically possible, but only with immediate and unprecedented action from governments
Lakes, rivers, and aquifers degrading in half of world’s countries, putting the health and livelihoods of billions of people under threat, UN warns
Brazilian oceanographer Leticia Carvalho elected to lead authority as tensions continue over deep sea mining plans
A major new UN report explores how the world can avoid repeating past mistakes that have led to overlapping, accelerating, and all encompassing threats such as climate change, nature loss, and AI
Every dollar spent on meeting global nature-related sustainability goals by 2030 could deliver $20-worth of economic benefits, according to a UN study
UNEP global food waste index lays bare scale of food loss and waste worldwide and its dire impacts on the economy, climate, and nature
Natural resource extraction, consumption set to rise 60 per cent by 2060, damaging the climate, biodiversity and human prosperity in the process, UN report warns
UNEP report argues that shifting to zero waste and circular economy approaches could eliminate soaring waste costs and deliver $108bn in economic benefits by 2050