Climate Inaction is More Expensive Than Climate Action: WMO Report
The ‘State of the Global Climate 2023’ report confirms that 2023 was the warmest year on record, with the global average near-surface temperature at 1.45°C above pre-industrial levels. On an average...
View ArticleEvent: 61st Session of the IPCC (IPCC-61)
The 61st session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC-61) will convene in July 2024. The meeting will be the third meeting of the seventh assessment cycle. The World Meteorological...
View ArticleIPCC Agrees on Workplan for Its Seventh Assessment Cycle
Governments discussed a range of possibilities for the path forward, “illuminat[ing] diverging views and priorities”. Key divergences concerned the set of outputs for the cycle, delivery timelines for...
View ArticlePolicy Brief: 2024: A Four-pronged Quest to Rebuild Trust and Restore Hope
It is with hope that the SDG Knowledge Hub’s editorial team looks ahead at 2024. We have identified four areas for policymakers and sustainable development professionals to watch in 2024.
View ArticleEvent: High-level Meeting on National Drought Policy +10
The High-level Meeting on National Drought Policy (HMNDP) +10 will convene under the theme, ‘Integrating Practice and Knowledge for Drought Resilience’. The Conference will bring together countries to...
View ArticleCOP 28 Day Spotlights Nature, Land, and Ocean
During a high-level event on sustainable ocean management, speakers emphasized that Sustainable Ocean Plans are integral to addressing the Ocean Breakthroughs, a set of science-based targets launched...
View ArticleWMO Report Calls for Synergistic Action to Achieve Paris Climate Goals, SDGs
The report finds that the decade was the warmest on record for land and ocean and points to “the profound transformation taking place in Polar regions”. At the same time, the ozone hole was smaller in...
View ArticleEvent: One Planet: Polar Summit
The One Planet: Polar Summit will be the first international summit dedicated to glaciers and poles. The Summit will bring together researchers and scientists from over 40 glacial and polar countries...
View ArticleWMO’s 2023 State of Climate Services Report Focuses on Health
Climate information and services are essential for determining how and when climate extremes affect health systems and human health – and for managing risks. The report’s findings reveal “huge”...
View ArticleEvent: 60th Session of the IPCC (IPCC-60)
The 60th session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC-60) will convene from 16-19 January 2024. The meeting will be the second meeting of the seventh assessment cycle. The World...
View ArticleWeather, Climate, Water Sciences Can Boost All SDGs: Multi-agency Report
The report provides a high-level compilation of the latest weather, climate, and water-related sciences and services for sustainable development. It focuses on SDG 2 (zero hunger), SDG 3 (good health...
View ArticleIPCC Elects New Chair, Bureaux to Guide Its Work for 7th Assessment Cycle
Many delegates “enthusiastically” welcomed the election as IPCC Chair of Jim Skea, who “is known as an efficient and engaging consensus-builder who values transparency”. Attended by 600 participants...
View ArticleWMO Congress Approves GHG Monitoring Initiative to Support Paris Agreement
The Global Greenhouse Gas Watch seeks to facilitate comprehensive, timely, free, and unrestricted international exchange of surface- and space-based GHG observations and modeling products. It will...
View ArticleEvent: 59th session of the IPCC (IPCC 59)
The 59th session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC 59) will convene from 25-28 July 2023. The meeting will be the first meeting of the seventh assessment cycle. The IPCC was...
View ArticleIPCC SYR Outlines Climate Actions to Secure Livable Future for All
Delegates conducted line-by-line review of the Summary for Policymakers, which “captures the most essential insights of the SYR and is expected to be the most widely read of the IPCC’s outputs”....
View ArticleGuest Article: SDG 6 Data for All
IMI-SDG6 provides the evidence base for the UN 2023 Water Conference and the upcoming in-depth review of SDG 6 at the HLPF through its regular progress updates, including the 2021 Summary Progress...
View ArticleUN Flagship Spotlights Role of Partnerships, Cooperation for Water
The report warns that at current rates, progress on all the targets of SDG 6 is off-track. In some areas, it finds, the rate of implementation needs to at least quadruple, to meet the deadline set by...
View ArticleEvent: World Meteorological Day 2023
World Meteorological Day 2023 will focus on the theme, ‘The Future of Weather, Climate and Water across Generations’. Every 23 March, World Meteorological Day commemorates the coming into force of the...
View ArticlePolicy Brief: 2023: Five Areas to Target Through Resolve, Determination, and...
As the UN and other actors pursue global peace efforts and COVID-19 transitions from pandemic to endemic, environmental negotiations are moving on with renewed determination. Some processes, such as...
View ArticleCOP 27 Events Highlight Role of PPPs, Resource Efficiency in Climate Action
Public-private partnerships can spread project costs, improve risk management and efficiencies, and undertake projects previously deemed unattractive or even impossible, said Egypt’s Minister of...
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