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'Making Peace With Nature' A new UN blueprint offers an integrated 'peace plan' to tackle three interlinked environmental emergencies — the climate crisis, biodiversity loss and pollution — that cannot be solved in isolation. Humans are not separate from nature - but a part of it "Our war on nature has left the planet broken," said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in the foreword of a new UN Environment Programme (UNEP) report that lays out a program to address the climate crisis, biodiversity loss and pollution in an integrated way.  As climate change-inducing emissions continue t...

Nairobi: The world can transform its relationship with nature and tackle the climate, biodiversity and pollution crises together to secure a sustainable future and prevent future pandemics, according to a new report by the UN Environment Programme (U

Without nature's help, "we will not thrive or even survive", the UN chief said on Thursday, launching a major report on the environment. "For too...

The Ecological Revolution, translated by Mohsen Saffari and forthcoming this year from Cheshmeh Publication in Iran. The Ecological Revolution: Making Peace with the Planet was first published a little more than ten years ago in April 2009, at a time when climate change had already been recognized as a pressing global issue for over two decades, but when there was still hardly any realistic discussion of its connection to capitalism or of the immense ecological and social revolution that would be required to overcome the Earth System crisis. In order to understand the historical gulf separati...

Restart 2021: Rising to the challenges of the environmental agenda Photo by Jan Kronies / Unsplash / 26 Jan 2021 Statement prepared for delivery at the 153 rd meeting of the Committee of Permanent Representatives Ambassador Coimbra, Excellencies, colleagues I am honoured on behalf of UNEP, to address you at the first meeting of the Committee of Permanent Representatives in 2021. It is indeed not the start to the year we had hoped for and we still have some way to journey as we seek to end the pandemic. As we scroll our newsfeeds, it has also become increasingly evident that environmental cri...