The Body mandated by the Paris Agreement to set up a new UN carbon market has agreed mandatory environmental and human rights safeguards early into a five-day meeting in Baku. These protections will ...

The City of Liverpool in northwest England has become the world’s first ‘Accelerator City’ for climate action, under UN ...

This month’s meeting of the Paris Implementation and Compliance Committee (PAICC) took place at a critical juncture, marking ...

This third annual summary report under the 10-year Glasgow work programme on Action for Climate Empowerment summarizes the progress of Parties, the secretariat and other stakeholders in implementing ...

In 2022, a staggering 1.05 billion tons of food were wasted, while 783 million people went hungry and a third of the global ...

New York City hosted the High-Level Forum on Global Climate Transparency last week, coinciding with the UN General Assembly. The event aimed to raise global awareness and support for the timely ...

The ocean and climate change dialogue (“dialogue”) was mandated by the Conference of the Parties at its twenty-sixth session. The 2024 dialogue was held in hybrid mode on 1112 ...

This is an advance distribution version of the document. The official English version with identical content and the translations into the other official United Nations languages will be made ...

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) sets an overall framework for intergovernmental efforts to tackle the challenge posed by climate change. Its objectives are to ...

The Paris Agreement Implementation and Compliance Committee (PAICC) is a constituted body of the Paris Agreement which facilitates implementation of the Agreement and promotes compliance. Links to ...

Climate finance refers to local, national or transnational financing—drawn from public, private and alternative sources of financing—that seeks to support mitigation and adaptation actions that will ...

The Joint Capacity-building Programme is initiated by the secretariats of the three “Rio Conventions”, namely the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Convention on ...