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To mark UN Day this year, UN News is taking a snapshot of just one part of world — featuring the diverse contributions made by former staff members in Brazil.

Climate experts say the world must stop adding to the total amount of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere by 2050.

New UN report says that current plans for fossil fuel production “vastly exceeds” climate limits.

As we plunder the planet, we risk rendering it uninhabitable—a crisis that cries out for global solidarity and collective action.

Plastics are expected to contribute more to climate change than coal-powered generating plants within the next decade, a new report by U.S. environmental organization Beyond Plastics has found. But the problem has so far received minimal attention from politicians and businesses.

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Thanks to Joe Manchin’s stubborn defense of dirty power plants, the president is going to have to find another way to drastically reduce emissions—but it’s not clear how.

The world needs to cut by more than half its production of coal, oil and gas in the coming decade to maintain a chance of keeping global warming from reaching dangerous levels, according to a UN-backed study released Wednesday.

Despite climate targets being ramped up, the world is set to increase the production of fossil fuels all the way to 2040 and beyond, producing nearly triple as much as is compatible with stopping global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius.

The UN says major economies will produce more than double the amount of coal, oil and gas in 2030 than is consistent with climate goals set in Paris in 2015.