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JOHANNESBURG, Dec 02 (IPS) - Youth and climate activists believe that the International Court of Justice's advisory opinion will send a powerful legal signal that UN member states cannot ignore their legal duties to act and protect the environment .. ...

RIYADH Saudi Arabia, Dec 02 (IPS) - A major new scientific report was launched December 1, a day ahead of the opening of the 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD COP16).

People around the world are facing devastating consequences as the land that supports livelihoods, helps to regulate climate and protect biodiversity becomes increasingly degraded due to climate change and mismanagement. The UN Convention to Combat . ...

VICTORIA, Seychelles, Dec 02 (IPS) - The Ocean is our life source, but for decades it has been repeatedly marred by humankind. With the disposal of pollutants into the Ocean, overexploitation of Ocean resources and the human-driven increase of global ...

Countries negotiating a legally binding instrument on plastic pollution concluded their fifth session in the small hours of Monday in Busan, Republic of Korea, with plans to reconvene in 2025.

An area the size of Egypt, around 100 million hectares, of healthy and productive land is being degraded each year due to drought and desertification, which is being driven mainly by climate change and poor land management.

VALLADOLID, Mexico, Nov 29 (IPS) - Indigenous craftsperson Alicia Pech doesn't know about the Maya Train (TM), the Mexican government's most emblematic megaproject that runs through five states in the country's south and southeast ...

PORT VILA, Vanuatu, Nov 29 (IPS) - Ralph Regenvanu, Special Envoy for Climate Change and Environment of the Republic of VanuatuThe climate crisis has become devastating across the world over the past few months: super typhoons sweeping through the .. ...

The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season officially concludes this weekend, leaving a trail of destruction, loss of life and massive economic damage across the Americas and the Caribbean, the UN meteorological agency reported on Friday.

IZALCO, El Salvador, Nov 28 (IPS) - With machete in hand, Salvadoran farmer Damián Córdoba weeds the undergrowth covering the trunk of what was once a leafy tree to show the deforestation taking place on the Santa Adelaida farm, where a company ...