IAEA and FAO team up to help Senegal researchers curb tsetse fly
A nuclear technique developed with U.N. support suppressed the disease-carrying tsetse fly without harming other insects.
Climate & Health
Melting glaciers. Rising sea levels. Wildfires. Food shortages. Widespread species extinctions. Global pandemics. Every other issue is secondary. The climate crisis is a health crisis — a reality highlighted by WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who points to the links between extreme weather, disease, and noncommunicable diseases. Science, politics, and economics are all at the heart of this urgent global issue.
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India's energy progress hailed by IEA, but major challenges loom
About half of India’s population — 700 million people — only gained access to electricity between 2000 and 2018.
Trade association seeks $5 billion fund to cut shipping emissions
London-based ICS proposed creating an organization to run a $5 billion fund for eliminating carbon from global shipping.
Marathon U.N. climate summit falls short on global carbon markets
Nations agreed to little more than another pledge to make more cuts in carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases.
Europe unveils climate-neutral Green Deal to reach net zero by 2050
The E.U.'s three-decade blueprint would remake the 28-nation bloc's economy and help reshape 21st century climate policy.
Gavi approves new Ebola vaccine global emergency stockpile
The global health partnership said the stockpile will provide free vaccines to nations with low to modest incomes.
U.N. warns significant carbon cuts needed to meet Paris treaty goals
A new U.N. report says the world must cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 7.6% a year starting in 2020.
Scientists declare humanity is in the grips of a global climate emergency
More than 11,000 scientists said only an urgent shift to a carbon-free economy can ward off planetary catastrophe.
With U.N. notification, Trump triggers U.S. exit from climate treaty
On the first day possible, the U.S. alerted the U.N. that it will withdraw from the 2015 Paris Agreement a year from now.
Despite U.S. absence, world's largest climate fund refilled with billions
As a global financing tool, Green Climate Fund has disbursed $5.2 billion to 111 climate projects among 99 nations.
New green tech finance platform launches to guide private investors
A group of nations responsible for nearly half of all warming pollutants aim to oversee investment in climate technologies.
Global Fund says it raised most ever for multilateral health organization
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria announced it reached its $14 billion target for pledges.
IMF report says a global carbon tax will be needed within a decade
The global lending institution said carbon emissions could be cut by 35% over the next decade through a $75 per ton tax.
New clean air treaty goes into effect across Europe and North America
The agreement aims to limit heat-trapping black carbon emissions that accelerate melting of glaciers and sea ice.
Swiss clamor for U.N.-led action to fight rising temperatures and seas
Up to 100,000 people turned out for Switzerland's largest-ever climate demonstration to fulfill the Paris climate treaty goals.
IPCC report on cryosphere points to 'profound' impacts from warming
Almost 1 meter of sea level rise and the collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is anticipated by the end of the century.