Environment/News/World Nations Must Slash Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 42% by 2030 to Avoid Climate Catastrophe – UNEP The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has issued a stark warning that nations must collectively commit to cutting 42% of annual greenhouse
Opinion COP29: Enhancing Nigeria’s climate finance transparency to attract funding, By Hamzat Lawal On 11 November, Nigeria will join representatives from nearly 200 countries in Baku, Azerbaijan for COP29. The two-week global summit will bring
Community Report/Environment/News/World Southeast Asian Civil Society Groups Call for Urgent Action on Fossil Fuel Expansion at CBD COP16 Southeast Asian civil society organizations have called on parties at the ongoing United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP16) in Cali,
Community Report/Featured/World Afrihealth Optonet Association Rallies Global Stakeholders to Fast-Track SDGs Ahead of 2030 Deadline Stakeholders have called for greater advocacy, social mobilization, and resource mobilization as key strategies to meet the 2030 SDG targets. The call
Community Report/Environment/Featured/News/World UNDP Launches New Guidelines for Countries to Finance Ambitious Biodiversity Goals The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has called on countries to identify and phase out subsidies harmful to biodiversity, in a new
Environment/News/World COP 16: Wetlands Dominate National Nature Plans, New Report Reveals As the United Nations biodiversity conference kicks off today in Cali, Colombia, a new report by Wetlands International has revealed that wetlands
Environment/News/World African Nations Push for Increased Biodiversity Funding as COP 16 Opens in Colombia The 16th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 16) officially opened today in Cali, Colombia, bringing together
Environment/News/World Oxfam Report: Up to $41bn in World Bank Climate Finance Unaccounted For, Raising Concerns Ahead of COP 29 Oxfam International has revealed that up to $41 billion in World Bank climate finance remains unaccounted for due to poor record-keeping, raising
Environment/Featured/Opinion Pact for the Future: A New Hope for Climate Action and Biodiversity Protection In September 2024, over 130 world leaders convened in New York for what the United Nations has dubbed the most ambitious international
Community Report/Environment/News/World COP16: Nations Fail to Submit Biodiversity Action Plans as World Faces Growing Ecological Crisis More than 80% of countries have failed to submit their plans to meet a United Nations agreement aimed at halting the destruction