United Nations Environment Programme

Two days after the climate summit failed to deliver on serious promises to reduce greenhouse emissions, the UN warned today that global warming is devastating the oceans and ice on the Earth in a way that directly threatens the humanity, AFP reported.

On Monday at the Global Roundtable in Paris, the United Nations Environment Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) and 28 banks from around the world launched the Principles for Responsible Banking for global public consultation.

Together the banks represent over $17 trillion in combined assets, and CEOs from 12 of the banks attended the launch.

French president Emmanuel Macron says that Europe will cover any shortfall in funding for the global climate body, the IPCC, BBC reports.

The scientific organisation has faced uncertainty since President Donald Trump outlined plans earlier this year to cut US funding.
The UK government also pledged to double their IPCC contribution.

The Global Environment Facility (GEF) Council has approved a grant of USD 3.2 million to help improve the state of forests in Serbia.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) made the announcement on Thursday, Tanjug reported.

A total of 196 countries are expected to sign a new agreement on climate that will determine the fate of the world in the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP 21, which will be held between Nov. 30 and Dec. 12 in Le Bourget, a commune in the northeast suburbs of Paris.

Global Impact Turkey Chairman Y?lmaz Argüden has addressed the importance of trust in maintaining good governance and sustainable development in his speech at the United Nations headquarters on June 25. 

Ahead of International Women's Day on March 8 and the 20th Anniversary of the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the Istanbul Stock Exchange (Borsa Istanbul) hosted an opening bell ceremony on March 6 in support of gender equality and women's economic empowerment.

BELGRADE - The exhibition Fifth Report, which focuses on climate change, will open at the Gallery of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Belgrade on Tuesday, the Science Promotion Centre has stated.

Vast areas of land and sea have become environmental sanctuaries in recent years but the world is not funding them adequately, the United Nations warned Nov. 13.

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said that countries were on track to meet targets to protect 17 percent of land and 10 percent of marine areas by 2020.

Polar bears, whales, sharks and gazelles were among 31 new species granted new protection status Nov. 9 by the U.N. conservation body, following six days of "intense" talks by leading conservationists.