UN scientists on Monday delivered a stark warning about the impact of climate change on people and the planet, saying that ecosystem collapse, species extinction, deadly heatwaves and floods are among the “unavoidable multiple climate hazards” the world will face over the next two decades due to global warming.

Minister Espen Barth Eide, President of the 5th UN Environment Assembly and Minister of Climate and the Environment, Norway

The United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA), the world’s foremost environmental decision-making body, kicks off this week in Nairobi, Kenya.

This new IPCC report comes out at a time of great turmoil, when we need strong multilateralism to promote peace and a healthy environment.

Thanks to you, we now have a solid foundation for next week’s UNEA.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group II report on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability was approved today in a virtual session.

The flaring gas and smoke that bellow into the sky from Iraq’s southern oil fields are visible from miles away.

As extreme weather events become commonplace, threatening communities and economies across the world, the UN is helping policy-makers and leaders by projecting the impact of future climate hazards, and recommending the best, most cost-effective ways to adapt.

A UN project, in association with one of India’s leading clean energy companies, is training women salt farmers in the Indian state of Gujarat to work in the solar power industry, and build a better life.

The President of the UN General Assembly appealed on Friday for greater global solidarity to vaccinate the entire world against COVID-19.