UN Secretary-General’s Initiative Aims to Strengthen Climate Resilience of the World’s Most Vulnerable Countries and People
Focus on early warning-early action systems, insurance, and increasing investment in bid to accelerate climate resilience efforts Paris, 30 November—A new initiative to build climate resilience in...
Paris Deal Would Herald an Important First Step on Climate Change
— President Obama and more than 100 world leaders will convene with thousands of diplomats on Monday on the outskirts of Paris to open two weeks of intense negotiations aimed at forging an accord...
Global climate march 2015 – in pictures
In Paris, 22,000 pairs of shoes – including that of Pope Francis and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, were placed at Place de la Republique, on behalf of the 400,000 people who were ex-pected...
Delegates Networking at COP21
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Why should we look at climate change from a gender perspective?
Luisa Emilia Reyes Zúñiga is Programme Director of Equality and Sustainable Development Policies and Budgets, with the Mexican NGO Equidad de Género (Gender Equity). An expert on gender-responsive...
Carbon Pricing: It’s on the move
World leaders will be in Paris today for the official opening of COP 21 – the United Nations Conference on Climate Change—to lay out their plans to tackle climate change and cut greenhouse gas...
Climate change threatens Tunisia olive farming
Tunisia’s 3,000-year history of olive farming is under threat with warnings that production is at risk of halving by 2030 because of the extremes of climate change, from floods to droughts....
