A new Water and Climate Leaders Panel came together for the first time on 3 March to catalyse integrated water and climate action for implementing the Sustainable Development Goals.
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Publish Date:
5 March 2021
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has rescheduled the approval session for the Working Group I contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) to 26-30 July 2021 from April.
Publish Date:
26 February 2021
UN Climate Change has published an initial assessment of Nationally Determined Countributions, the NDC Synthesis Report, showing nations must redouble efforts and submit stronger, more ambitious national climate action plans in 2021 if they’re to achieve the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global temperature rise by 2°C—ideally 1.5°C—by the end of the century.
Publish Date:
26 February 2021
The Typhoon Committee, a joint body of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific and the World Meteorological Organization, has just held its 53rd annual session, continuing the long-term commitment to protect lives and property from tropical cyclones and typhoons in Northwestern Pacific Ocean.
Publish Date:
24 February 2021
More collective action is needed to address the risks climate change poses to global peace and security, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres told a high-level Security Council debate on 23 February.
