This can help in scaling up further action, as governments prepare to submit the next round of national climate action plans, known as Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), by 2020.

Despite this, indigenous peoples have historically been at the margins of formal international processes to address climate change.

Important,” said Eduardo Calvo, Co-Chair of the Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories.

When 27-year-old Peter Moll was young, his grandmother told him tales of the landscape and animals.

In preparations for COP 25, CMP 15 and CMA 2, the secretariat completed its third mission to Santiago, Chile.

It’s close to midnight on a Sunday and the skies of Lagos hang dark over the glittering lights of the city’s 17.5 million residents.

UN Climate Change News, 7 August 2019 – African farmers need help to cope with the threats of climate change through national policies that make them more resilient, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has declared, following a major conference on food security in Rwanda.

Briefing the press at UN Headquarters in New York, UN Secretary-General Guterres said that, while there have always been hot summers, the summer the northern hemisphere is currently experiencing is “not the summer of our youth”, but a climate emergency.

The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and UN Climate Change (UNFCCC) are jointly ramping up efforts to fight climate change by promoting the widespread adoption and sustainable use of renewable energy.

This was the key conclusion of a meeting of experts in Bonn last month.