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In a bid to cut down noise pollution, the Traffic Police and other authorities are coming up with awareness campaigns to spread awareness.

The EPP, the European parliament’s largest group, says it supports climate goals but objects to ‘bad proposal’

The global community is one step closer towards a legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment, with the second session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-2) in the romantic city of Paris concluding with a mandate for the INC Chair to prepa...

"If we do not rapidly cut emissions, in line with the Paris Agreement, we will be in deeper trouble."

"If we do not rapidly cut emissions, in line with the Paris Agreement, we will be in deeper trouble."

Global support to producers in the agricultural sector amounts to USD 540 billion per year, making up 15 per cent of total agricultural production value. By 2030, this is projected to soar up more than three times to USD 1.759 trillion. Yet 87 per cent of this support, approximately USD 470 billion, is price distorting and environmentally and socially harmful. These are findings of a new UN report calling for repurposing damaging incentives to achieve more of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goa...

Stakeholders at all levels from 150 countries come together to celebrate World Environment Day.

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo addresses the audience at the Paris International Forum to End Plastic Pollution in Cities. Photo: Thierry Lewenberg-Sturm “Plastic kills, and the damages of plastic pollution have no borders. We cannot beat plastic pollution if we don’t tackle climate change, environmental loss and food crises at the same time.”  That was the powerful…

Cheap and available technologies can help us meet climate goals this decade: here’s how, according to the new UN climate report.

It is a pleasure for me to be present at the second session of the UN-Habitat Assembly also on behalf of Inger Andersen , the UNEP Executive Director, who for exigiencies of work outside the country could not be here but sends her sincere greetings and success for the Assembly.