United Nations Environment Programme

A report released on Wednesday by the United Nations Environment Programme, which details the impact of extreme heat on older people, found that worldwide, heat-related deaths in that group have gone up by 85 per cent since the 1990s, and that heat-related efforts that target that age demographic are needed imminently.

The analysis from World Weather Attribution and Climate Central researchers comes at the end of a year that shattered climate record after climate record as heat across the globe made 2024 likely to be its hottest ever measured and a slew of other fatal weather events spared few.

Experts meet in Bangkok this week to advance what would be the first international treaty to tackle the surging problem of plastic pollution. Final treaty negotiations take place in South Korea in November.

Researchers still can’t answer the big question: Are those nanoplastic pieces harmful to health?

The world is heading for considerably less warming than projected a decade ago, but that good news is overwhelmed by much more pain from current climate change than scientists anticipated, experts said.

Of the 20 major fossil-fuel-producing countries profiled in the report, Canada’s planned increase to oil production for 2030, compared to 2021 levels, ranks behind only Brazil, the United States and Saudi Arabia, and just ahead of Russia and Kuwait.

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.

Earth’s protective ozone layer is slowly but noticeably healing at a pace that would fully mend the hole over Antarctica in about 43 years, a new United Nations report says.

The United Nations climate summit in Glasgow has made “some serious toddler steps” toward cutting emissions but far from the giant leaps needed to limit global warming to internationally accepted goals, two new analyses and top officials said on Tuesday, November 9, 2021.

It can be tempting to succumb to pessimism in a world touched by human consumption, but on World Environment Day, two prominent climate leaders are spreading a resounding message of hope.

China is moving ahead with a cap-and-trade market that some believe could transform the dynamics of the international climate change battle.