With UNEP support, Lao PDR has developed a system to track planet-warming emissions, seen as key for allowing the nation to ...

It’s been a week since the U.S. pressed Israel and Iran into a truce, ending a bloody 12-day conflict that had set the Middle ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, welcomes the peace agreement signed yesterday in Washington D.C. between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the Republic of Rwanda. We commend the tireless ...

Thorny questions about who will pay for global climate action derailed a climate summit in Bonn, Germany, this week.

WASHINGTON/PARIS/KINSHASA (Reuters) -Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo signed a U.S.-brokered peace agreement on Friday ...

As some wealthy countries backslide on climate promises, the world’s least developed countries warn that “every fraction of a ...

Countries have pledged a 10% increase in the UNFCCC budget for 2026-2027, reflecting a global commitment to climate change cooperation. Despite funding challenges and the U.S. absence, China's growing ...

Countries agreed on Thursday to increase the U.N. climate body's budget by 10% for the next two years, a move the body ...

W HEN THE Charter of the United Nations was signed, 80 years ago this week, President Harry Truman emphasised that the document’s value lay only in the will of governments to use it. “The job”, he ...

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday urged world leaders to ratify a treaty that would allow nations to establish protected marine areas in international waters, warning that human ...

Key Background. The 2015 Paris Agreement was signed by most United Nations members and was primarily a voluntary climate pact for countries to reduce global warming and “recognize the need for ...

Leaving the Paris Agreement, which will take one year from the day Trump notifies the United Nations of his intention to do so, means the U.S. will no longer contribute to funding streams intended ...