The global challenges of our time beg global solutions, and we must continuously demonstrate the merits of multilateral cooperation, the Secretary-General said on Monday, launching the 2019 United Nation’s annual report.

A meeting of ministers and high-level representatives of the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) today agreed to accelerate efforts to significantly reduce short-lived climate pollutants by the end of the next decade in order to put the world on a “pathway that rapidly reduces warming in the near term and maximizes development, health, environmental, and food security benefits”.

Some of the biggest names in the video games industry, with a combined audience of 970 million players, have today formally committed to harness the power of their platforms to take action in response to the climate crisis.

Climate change was top of the agenda at the Social Good Summit.

Wang Wenbiao has spent most of his life fighting that most implacable of enemies: sand.

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, a World Heritage site, is one of the most iconic coral reefs.

New York, 23 September—Leaders from government, business and civil society are announcing potentially far-reaching steps today to confront climate change at the United Nations Secretary-General’s Climate Action Summit in New York.

The initiatives already demonstrate that achieving the 1.5°C goal will require the mobilization of all actors across society – countries, regions, cities, companies, investors and other organizations – working collaboratively toward reducing emissions to essentially zero by mid-century.

The event was hosted by the Bureau of the UNFCCC under the leadership of Michał Kurtyka, President of the UN Climate Change Conference COP24.

The report was published ahead of the first-ever high-level summit on universal health coverage (UHC), at UN headquarters in New York, on Monday, one of five official summits taking place during the High-Level Week marking the opening of the new General Assembly session.