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Climate

This beat covers the effects of climate change on people and the planet, and individual and collective climate actions to mitigate and adapt to its impacts.

Secretary-General António Guterres (second from right) hosts a meeting on Climate and Just Transition convened with Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (not pictured), President of Brazil.
Climate

Ahead of COP30, Guterres urges bold climate action and investment

UN Secretary-General António Guterres calls on world leaders to commit to ambitious climate action and significantly increase investment in renewables in Africa.
Gola Rainforest spans the border between Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Climate

Conserving Gola forest: Sierra Leone and Liberia unite for peace, sustainability

Modou Fall campaigns for a Senegal free of single use plastic.
Climate

The ‘Plastic Man’: Turning trash into treasure

plasticSocial Protection Modou Fall does more than recycling, he campaigns for a cleaner and greener future.
A bone-dry part of the River Niger at Mopti, a major town in the Sudano-Sahelian zone of Mali.
Climate

Floods and droughts are two sides of the same crisis

Climate action Wetlands can fix both.

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Samuel Jepi, National Forest Initiative, outside of the NFI camp near Kupiano, Papua New Guinea. May 23, 2019
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Creating credible carbon market in Africa

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Climate

Restoring landscapes, fighting climate change

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Transforming Africa’s Food Systems: the challenges and opportunities

A motor bike rider in Nairobi, October 19, 2022, next to an electric bus
Climate

Energy: Africa’s stand at COP27

Rescued orphan elephants at David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Kenya.

Wildlife crime putting environment and health at risk: UN report

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Perched on the heights of Mount el Gorrâa, the gardens of Djebba el Olia form a unique agroforestry system.

Tunisia’s unique farming systems win recognition as part of the global agricultural heritage

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A woman tends to saplings in the tree nursery in Al Jabalain, Sudan.

Restoring Sudan’s forest cover, one tree at a time

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Refugees and their hosts together plant one million trees in a massive reforestation drive in Sudan’s White Nile State.

When sea cucumbers are farmed sustainably, they can boost biodiversity and livelihoods in Zanzibar.

How sea cucumbers are boosting the bioeconomy in Zanzibar

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Offering alternative livelihoods, sea cucumbers provide new hope

An unusually early and exceptionally intense heatwave has set new temperature records in Europe, posing a major threat to people's health, agriculture and the environment

Flagship UN study shows accelerating climate change on land, sea and in the atmosphere

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A swarm of desert locusts fill the sky near a farm.

More funding needed to combat locust swarms ‘unprecedented in modern times’

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Amina J Mohammad visiting Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe

UN Deputy Secretary-General sees firsthand climate change effects in Zimbabwe’s largest animal park

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Locusts can devastate crops and pastures.

East Africa locusts threaten food security across subregion, alerts UN agriculture agency

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Secretary-General António Guterres (left) with Greta Thunberg (right), Climate Activist.

Climate summit, a major step in achieving reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020

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Secretary-General António Guterres, Greta Thunberg and others on stage at the Youth Climate Summit.

Youth activists press for bold action on climate, vow to hold leaders accountable

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Secretary-General António Guterres (on screens and at podium) opens UN Climate Action Summit 2019

Summit expected to deliver concrete actions to halt climate change

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New pathways and practical actions to shift global response

Adjany Costa looking through binoculars.

Protecting the world’s last wild places

Ecosystems