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Leaders at the United Nations Environment Assembly are confident they’ll reach an agreement to curb the growing volume of plastic waste. That’s despite pushback from industrial interests.

The ‘Working Group II’ report, with input from 270 scientists from 67 countries for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), provides the latest evidence of how accelerating climate change is impacting nature and humanity.

While some four out of ten people in the world are already living under the threat of climate change, today’s children could experience a four-to five-fold increase in extreme weather events in their lifetimes, with a dramatic impact on lives, health, and security, according to the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), released on Monday. UNTV CH

Talks on a potential plastics pollution treaty are in the home stretch at a United Nations Environment Assembly meeting in Kenya. Negotiators expect to finish March 2.

Deadly with extreme weather now, climate change is about to get so much worse. It is...

A new United Nations report on how climate change harms people and the environment reads like an atlas of human and planetary suffering

A new United Nations report on how climate change harms people and the environment reads like an atlas of human and planetary suffering

Deadly with extreme weather now, climate change is about to get so much worse. It is likely going to make the world sicker, hungrier, poorer, gloomier and way more dangerous in the next 18 years with an “unavoidable” increase in risks, a new United Nations science report says.

United Nations member states attending the UN Environment Assembly’s opening session have raised concerns over the environmental impact of the Russia-Ukraine crisis. Russia says they are hypocrites.

BY VISHAL GULATI