Event: 57th session of the IPCC (IPCC 57)
The 57th session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC 57) will be a business Plenary session with agenda items including the work of the Ad Hoc Group on Elections and the IPCC Trust...
View ArticleLatest IPCC Report Stresses Carbon Dioxide Removal, Low-emission Technologies
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s working group on reducing greenhouse gas emissions met to finalize a summary of its latest report, which targets policymakers. Carbon dioxide removal...
View ArticleSDG 6 Event at HLPF 2022 Reviews Themes and Inputs for UN 2023 Water Conference
Delegates were briefed on the outcomes of the 2021 Bonn Water Dialogues for Results, the 9th World Water Forum, the 4th Asia-Pacific Water Summit, the High-Level Symposium on Water at the 2022 UN Ocean...
View ArticleGuest Article: Better Planning of Adaptation Action for Better Outcomes
Planned adaptation includes incentivizing on-farm options through policies and actions, but also goes far beyond an only on-farm focus to a diverse spectrum of actions. Anticipatory resilience building...
View ArticleMulti-agency Climate Science Report Warns About “Tipping Points”
The report warns that “urgent action is needed to mitigate emissions and adapt to our changing climate”. It also notes that climate-related disasters “set back progress towards achieving the [SDGs] and...
View ArticleIPCC Prepares to Transition to Seventh Assessment Cycle
With approval of the Synthesis Report from the sixth assessment cycle delayed until March 2023, many governments made “unusually blunt statements of discontent” concerning the IPCC’s impact and...
View ArticleEvent: High-level Launch of the 2022 State of Climate Services: Energy Report
The High-level Launch of the ‘2022 State of Climate Services: Energy Report’ will take place online on 11 October 2022. Prepared by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and 25 partner...
View ArticleEvent: 58th session of the IPCC (IPCC 58)
The 58th session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC 58) is scheduled to take place in March 2023. This session is expected to focus on the approval of the Synthesis Report (SYR) of...
View ArticleClimate and Health Linkages Come to the Fore Ahead of COP 27
The 2022 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change argues that “a health-centered, aligned response to the compounding crises can still deliver a future where people can not only...
View ArticleMinisters Pledge to Increase Efforts to Reduce Methane Emissions
Several countries announced pledges to the CCAC Trust Fund, with new commitments totaling USD 6 million. John Kerry, Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, US, emphasized that achieving the Global...
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...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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...
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