We promote sustainable, low-emission transport and work to reduce the sector’s contribution to air pollution and climate change.

In response to the rapid rise in the scale, intensity, frequency and impacts of extreme heat, UN Secretary-General António Guterres recently called for an urgent and concerted effort to enhance ...

The rupture of Europe’s Nord Stream gas pipelines more than two years ago resulted in the planet’s largest human-caused release of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, finds a new studycoordinated by ...

The Global Tailings Management Institute (GTMI), an independent, multi-stakeholder governed organisation dedicated to ...

Kagimu is one of a growing number of Ugandans who in recent months have switched to electric cooking technologies. The ...

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the International Energy Agency (IEA), with the support of the Italian ...

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A global treaty to end plastic pollution is within reach, but action on chemicals, production and financing is critical. Unified efforts must start now to curb rising costs, risks and environmental ...

Experts say limiting the release of nitrous oxide is crucial for keeping warming below the critical 1.5°C threshold of the ...

In Viet Nam, a seed capital assistance facility helps build a wind farm, which has reduced CO2 emissions and created jobs.