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World heading for ‘climate catastrophe’ as countries’ plans fail to deliver – UN.

This year’s United Nations Biodiversity Summit is a vital opportunity to protect threatened forests and wildlife from destructive industries.

Indigenous peoples can inspire future global food systems towards more sustainable and just societies

The UN Secretary-General proposed a military ceasefire during the pandemic, but we also need freedom from debt.

An interview with Christiana Figueres, key architect of the Paris Agreement and author of The Future We Choose.

How do we build more resilient ecosystems in the face of globalisation, pollution and inequality?

A just recovery from Covid-19 calls for coordinated global governance, with global public health authorities working alongside conservationists.

Urgently needed protection granted to shark species on the brink of extinction.

An interview with Christiana Figueres, former Executive Secretary UN Climate Change Convention.

UN launches world’s biggest survey on climate change.

Continued production, trade and use of fracked hydrocarbons ‘torpedoes our global efforts to tackle climate change and violates basic human rights’.

Global rescue plan to stop extinction is 'hopelessly weak and inadequate'.

Young change makers set sail for the UN climate conference in Bonn.

Damning UN investigation condemns WWF flagship project in Congo and reveals massive scale of abuse.

Seven key demands from the Global Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warns climate breakdown is having a significant impact on the oceans.

Almost a quarter of the greenhouse gases put out by humans comes from land use.

Confusion reigns as UN Environment publishes, then retracts, an article criticising the use of carbon credits to make up for polluting activities.

UN committee tasked with enforcing the Aarhus Convention - giving people access to environmental justice - expresses 'surprise' at just how rubbish the UK has been.

The UN Committee on World Food Security in Rome has today launched a new report examining the impact of chemical intensive, industrial food system on human health. GEORGINA DOWNS responds.

Meeting global targets to end hunger by 2030 could be challenging given a recent increase in food insecurity exacerbated by conflict and environmental degradation. CATHERINE EARLY reports.

With the UN Ocean Conference beginning in New York next week, Elizabeth A Kirk asks: can we devise a legal system that promotes the ecological resilience of the oceans? To do so will mean placing ecosystems at the heart of decision making, over and above countries' selfish 'national interests'. It will be tough, but if we fail it's hard to see how the gamut of problems - from ocean acidification to plastic pollution and overfishing - can ever be solved.

The participation of the fossil fuel industry in UN climate talks represents clear a conflict of interest, writes Pascoe Sabido. And nowhere has this been more apparent than at this month's UNFCCC meeting in Bonn, where fossil fuel representatives have slowed progress to a snail's pace. With just six months to go before November's COP23 negotiations, it's time to defy the US, EU and Australia, and kick fossil fuel lobbyists out!