The UNU Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) has identified five major areas of "urgent and necessary change" ...

AI raises concerns over its ethical implications and environmental footprint. This article explores AI’s energy consumption ...

Secretary-General António Guterres announced the launch of the UN80 Initiative on 12 March 2025 to rapidly identify efficiencies and improvements, review the implementation of all mandates given to ...

Accelerating progress to restore 1.5 billion hectares of degraded land around the world and jumpstarting a trillion-dollar land restoration economy will be the focus of this year’s Desertification and ...

It all starts with one cup and one choice: In Denmark’s second biggest city Aarhus you get paid when you return your coffee ...

The following is a transcript of remarks delivered by UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell in Berlin on 26 March 2025 at the “Europe 2025” Conference. Colleagues, honored guests, lots of ...

The world is at a crossroads. While the past decades have seen remarkable progress toward gender equality and human rights, a growing backlash threatens to erode these hard-won gains. Anti-gender ...

This year’s Petersberg Climate Dialogue (PCD), held from 25-26 March 2025 in Berlin, Germany focuses on the preparations for the 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) taking place in ...

The first-ever WHO Collaborating Centre (CC) on Risk Communication, Community Engagement and Infodemic Management (RCCE-IM) has launched at Kristiania University of Applied Sciences in Norway. During ...