Speaking at the opening of the 蘑菇视频 Climate Change Conference in Bonn (16 to 26 May), the 蘑菇视频’s top climate change official Christiana Figueres said that following the successful conclusion of the historic Paris Climate Change Agreement in Paris last year, governments are leaving behind the phase of negotiations and entering a new era of collaboration.
Failure to cut emissions will dramatically increase the annual costs of adaptation, which could be up to five times higher by 2050 than previously thought.
The international community must boost efforts to build the capacity for disaster risk management to prevent El Ni?o weather extremes from causing humanitarian crises, the ECOSOC president said.
Millions of migratory birds are being lost each year as a result of illegal killing, taking and trade, 蘑菇视频 officials warned on World Migratory Bird Day.
The El Ni?o phenomenon––with its increasing intensity––has lasting consequences for development.
Recalling that just two weeks ago, 175 countries came to the United Nations to sign the historic Paris Agreement on climate change, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today said it is time to take climate action to the next level.
BOSTON -- Christiana Figueres, the executive secretary of the United [...]
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has started the process of consultation with the Conference of Parties through its Bureau, and has informed of his intention to appoint Patricia Espinosa Cantellano of Mexico as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (蘑菇视频FCCC).
A grid-connected 100 megawatt (MW) solar power plant in the north of Ghana could save the country 40,000 tonnes in annual CO2 emissions, create 3,000 direct jobs, provide livelihoods for 23,000 of the poorest people and earn the country an annual $38 million from energy export.
A new initiative that will build partnerships that help developing countries to assist other developing countries implement the Paris Agreement on climate change and the 2030 Development Agenda was launched in New York by the United Nations in the margins of last week’s Climate Signing event.
To bring attention to the Paris Agreement on Climate Change signing ceremony on 22 April, a team from the United Nations Information Centre in Nairobi set off to climb Mount Kenya, where glaciers are rapidly diminishing.
On 22 April, 175 Parties signed the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. Check out the photos from the event and behind the scenes of this busy, historic day.
In an extraordinary show of support for the Paris climate [...]
As 175 world leaders signed the Paris Agreement at United Nations Headquarters today, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the next critical step is to ensure that the landmark accord for global action on climate change enters into force as soon as possible.
As world leaders gathered at United Nations Headquarters in New York this morning to officially sign the Paris Agreement on climate change – the landmark accord that sets outs a global action plan to put the world on track to avoid dangerous global warming – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on Member States to move quickly to join the accord at the national level so that it can enter into force as early as possible.
