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National Measures to Cut Air Pollution Would Benefit From Stronger Links With Climate Action
Actions taken to reduce emissions of air pollutants and greenhouse gases often address the same economic sectors but are reported separately under different EU legislation. This briefing presents an overview of the latest policies and measures reported by Member States…
Human Activities Put Pressure on Every Part of Europe’s Seas
The EEA briefing Multiple pressures and their combined effects in Europe’s seas summarises the results of a spatial pressure assessment by the EEA and its European Topic Centre on Inland, Coastal and Marine waters (ETC/ICM), which shows that a wide…
Leading Renewable Players Urge Governments to Re-align Recovery Measures with Paris Agreement
With the Paris Agreement celebrating its fifth anniversary this week, all eyes are on the world’s governments to urgently scale-up climate action. In a renewed call to action, over 100 leading renewable energy players, as members of the International Renewable…
Still Insufficient Progress in Making Transport Fuels More Climate Friendly
The European Union is behind its objective to reduce the greenhouse gas emission intensity of fuels sold for road transport to 6 percent below 2010 levels, as set out in the EU’s 2020 climate and energy targets. According to the…
Mongolia Receives New $23.1 Million Gcf Grant to Strengthen Climate Resilience
The Green Climate Fund approved a new US$23.1million grant to UNDP supported project aimed at strengthening climate resilience in Mongolia. The grant comes at a time when the country is facing a range of natural disasters, climate change is multiplying…
How WHO is Working to Track Down the Animal Reservoir of the SARS-CoV-2 Virus
The introduction of a new virus to the human population is one of the greatest mysteries an epidemiologist can hope to unravel. Some of the most common and deadliest human diseases are caused by bacteria or viruses of animal origin.…
Locust Control Campaign Covers Millions of Hectares, But the Voracious Pest is Still a Threat in East Africa
Questions and Answers with Keith Cressman, FAO’s Senior Locust Forecasting Officer Why are we seeing a resurgence of Desert Locust in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula? Well, as we predicted, climatic conditions are driving this new round…