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Nairobi, 19 September 2022 – 78 per cent of Africa’s population commutes by foot and on bicycles every day, yet difficult, dangerous and uncomfortable conditions contribute to a rapid rise in the number of vehicles in cities and an increasing number of road fatalities. This has grave implications for people’s health and the environment: 261 pedestrians and 18 cyclists are killed every day on the roads, along with over 258,000 deaths annually as a result of air pollution. These findings ap...

The Global Registry reveals that the US and Russia each hold enough fossil fuel reserves to blow the entire global carbon budget, even if all other countries ceased production immediately.

New data warn that combusting all oil, gas and coal reserves would exceed the world's "carbon budget" seven times over.

Muscat - There has been a substantial reduction in ODSs emissions over the last two decades, and there is evidence that the ozone layer is healing itself and can recover by the...

Africa is hit hard by climate change despite contributing less than four per cent of global carbon emissions.

Responding to the recent UN resolution on the right to a healthy environment, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), in collaboration with Swiss technology company IQAir, has made significant updates to the world’s largest air quality data platform.  The big data platform, first launched in February 2020, now identifies which age groups are exposed to bad air at any given hour, in a country.

Download logoResponding to the recent UN resolution on the right to a healthy environment, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), in collaboration with

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Thousands of species could go extinct in the next few decades without immediate intervention. Demand a committed investment in rewilding at-risk habitats and ecosystems.

Ukraines environment ministry says it is documenting damage to the countrys natural resources to hold Russia accountable.