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Experts had long said that floods posed a significant danger to two dams meant to protect nearly 90,000 people in the northeast of Libya. They repeatedly called for immediate maintenance to the two structures, located just uphill from the coastal city of Derna. But successive governments in the chaos-stricken North African nation did not react.

On Tuesday, the United Nations Environment Program and the Yale Center for Ecosystems and Architecture put out a new report, Building Materials and the Climate: Constructing a New Future.

A new UN report detailing what needs to happen to limit global warming in line with the Paris Agreement's goals comes as the G20 is set to meet in India.

Without the majority of the Earth’s population, the transition to a green world will fail. In that scenario, everyone loses.

Taylor Quinn is the CEO of Tailored Food, a social enterprise consultancy that partners with food entrepreneurs, farmers and market vendors to ensure nutritious and delicious low-cost food is available to families suffering from malnutrition. The hope is to end hunger by 2030.

A United Nations body has affirmed earlier findings that Canada's largest national park remains under environmental threats from dams, oilsands development and climate change.

Climate campaigners have long complained that the so-called Conferences of the Parties, or COPs, are undermined by lobbyists for oil and gas firms attending under the guise of country delegates.

Nations resumed talks on tackling global warming Monday with the aim of shaping a deal that might put the world on track to prevent a dangerous increase in temperatures, as the United Nations' top climate official called for deep cuts in fossil fuel use.

New Brunswick saw a six per cent rise in emissions, according to the Conservation Council of New Brunswick, which put out a provincial breakdown of the federal government’s National Inventory Report. That report, based on the most recent data available from 2021, is an analysis provided to the United Nations to show a country’s progress on reaching climate targets. 

The report, titled A Labour of Love: The Unpaid and Exploited Labour of Grassroots and Community-Based Indigenous Youth Groups, calls out Ottawa for not valuing the work of young Indigenous organizers.

Canada’s progress on significantly cutting pollution by 2030 is being undermined by growing emissions from the country’s oil and gas industry, according to the federal government’s annual emissions report to the United Nations. 

Senior government officials at a climate meeting in Copenhagen gave a muted response on Tuesday, March 21, 2023, to calls from the head of the United Nations for countries to show greater ambition when it comes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

A climate bomb is ticking, and the latest report from the world’s leading climate science body is a how-to guide for defusing it, says United Nations Secretary General António Guterres.

The majority of developing nations are set to miss out on the economic benefits of booming green technologies, slowing progress toward their climate goals and widening the inequality gap between rich and poor countries, a United Nations report warned on Thursday.

The new global high seas biodiversity treaty finally offers binding protections to marine life across huge swaths of the open ocean and helps stem climate change and biodiversity collapse.