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Countries most affected by climate change—as well as citizens and non-profit groups—are increasingly turning to courts to compel governments and fossil fuel producers to address the climate crisis.
A couple of years ago, in the turquoise waters off the coastal village of Mahébourg in Mauritius, a Japanese oil tanker ran aground.
As the world bakes under record heat, the nearly 200 parties to the Paris Agreement are developing new national plans to counter climate change.
Nairobi, 23 July 2024– As record temperatures and unprecedented impacts of climate change continue to affect billions of people across the planet, the United Nations and partners have announced a series of regional meetings aimed at increasing ambition in the next round of climate pledges under the Paris Agreement.
Songdo, 18 July 2024 – The Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board has today approved a significant new project in Jordan to increase adaptation efforts, supported by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).
If you attended the NAP Expo in Dhaka, Bangladesh in April, you would have witnessed the longest running heatwave since records began 76 years ago. It was not the only record-breaking extreme weather to strike globally that month: Kenya experienced unprecedented floods.
These major climatic events took lives, forced school closures, disrupted agriculture, and negatively affected health, wellbeing, and livelihoods.
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The world is warming at a record pace, with unseasonable heat baking nearly every continent on Earth.
So far, it has been a successful year in the courts for climate change activists.
In June 2020, Tropical Storm Amanda descended on El Salvador’s capital, San Salvador. Gale-force winds and torrential rains triggered more than 150 landslides and 20 major floods, tearing apart roads, electrical lines and almost 30,000 homes.
It is restoration day in a village high in the Andes and the mood is festive.
After limbering up with a traditional dance, dozens of volunteers each grab an armful of bushy green saplings. Then they clamber onto pickup trucks, motorbikes and horses and stream up a treeless mountainside to plant them.
Two of the largest reservoirs in America, which provide water and electricity to millions, are in danger of reaching ‘dead pool status,’ a result of the climate crisis and overconsumption of water, experts say.
Set amid the rapidly growing city of Kingston, Jamaica’s capital, is a small commercial garden run by the community group the Abilities Foundation. Neat rows of fruits and vegetables line the plot, which helps fund vocational training for students with special needs.
Alongside the produce is a tank that harvests rainwater and a network of tubes that disperses it into the garden. That system is crucial.
It was a late evening in April 2018 when Philbert Ntaciyica, exhausted from the non-stop heavy rain battering his roof, wondered if his farm would survive this latest storm.
When the 12-hour downpour finally eased in Nzove, a village perched on a hillside in north-eastern Burundi, Ntaciyica emerged from his home to find no crops or topsoil. All had been washed downhill by the deluge, and along with them, his livelihood.
The UN Environment Programme has produced a series of case studies on the topic of ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) to encapsulate the innovative approaches and lessons learned from its extensive portfolio of climate adaptation projects.
Ecosystem-based adaptation harnesses nature-based solutions to address climate challenges, providing win-win outcomes that protect vulnerable communities from extreme weather while offering vital ecological benefits.
EPIC-Africa’s growing program partnership with Uganda, co-funded by UN-Habitat and Mbale City, is an exemplary model of the power of collaboration between communities, local governments, and universities that EPIC-N strives to consistently represent. Starting in 1997 when the University of Makerere recognized the pressing need to address development challenges faced by slum dwellers in Mbale city, students became involved in various activities to fill the gaps that a shortage of professional city planners was causing.
Grand Cape Mount County in Western Liberia is home to Lake Piso. This large lake accommodates a sizable mangrove forest that is essential to the lake’s ecosystem and village areas as it provide protection against erosion and absorbs harmful storm surges. One of the biggest advantages of the mangrove forest is its ability to sequester large amounts of carbon from the atmosphere and store it underwater in the soil for the next millennia. This capability is essential in the fight against climate change and will become increasingly vital in the years to come.
In a bid to address critical gaps in adaptation planning and implementation in Hindu Kush Himalayas (HKH), UN Climate Change, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Global Adaptation Network and International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) have joined efforts to close adaptation knowledge disparities.
15 February 2024, Malé – The Government of Maldives, in partnership with the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), is increasing the climate resilience of the island nation through the development of a National Adaptation Plan (NAP).
Djibouti, 10 janvier 2024 - Le Programme des Nations Unies pour l'environnement (PNUE) et le gouvernement de Djibouti ont annoncé un projet de 26 millions de dollars visant à renforcer la résilience climatique dans ce pays d'Afrique de l'Est.
Djibouti, 10 January 2024 - The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Government of Djibouti have announced a USD 26 million project aiming to build climate resilience in the East African country.
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In the week since the UN Climate Change Conference (COP28) came to an end, a cyclone slammed into Australia, torrential rains pelted the United States of America and a punishing drought continued to decimate crops in Zimbabwe.
This year, humanity came face to face with an ever-worsening climate crisis, as wildfires, storms and floods caused devastation around the world.
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The development of the GAN involved a broad UNEP-facilitated consultative process, including an international consultation meeting and four regional consultations.