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“We are on a highway to climate hell with our foot on the accelerator.”

The United Nations is launching a satellite system that is designed to detect and track global methane emissions

The UN will use global mapping satellites to detect methane hotspots and notify relevant parties to take action. The Bezos Earth Fund will also be supporting the project.

Nations in the Global South have been increasingly focused on securing the means to address the impacts of climate change that are already here.

Young people are the future of our planet, in more ways than one. Morgane Rivoal, climate and circular economy officer at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Vietnam, explains how and why the young generation can be climate pioneers.

World is not on track to achieve forest goals of ending and reversing deforestation by 2030

As Cambodia welcomes ASEAN Heads of State to Phnom Penh for the 40th and 41st ASEAN Summit and related meetings, we can expect the energy hungry lights will be blazing and the air conditioners humming across the capital.

... the Emissions Gap Report 2022: The Closing Window – Climate crisis calls for rapid transformation of societies finds that the international community is falling far short of the Paris goals, with no credible pathway to 1.5°C in place. Only an urgent system-wide transformation can avoid climate disaster. -- "Emissions Gap Report 2022" UN Environment Programme The UNEP sounds the alarm,

The world faces a “rapidly closing window” to meet the Paris Agreement’s goals, warns the latest “emissions gap” report from the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).

COP stands for Conference to the Parties to the United Nations Framework on Climate Change, which aims to prevent dangerous global warming.