About COP23

The 2017 ±¬ÁÏÍø Climate Conference takes place in Bonn, Germany, from 6-18 November. Leaders of national governments, cities, states, business, investors, NGOs and civil society will gather to speed up climate action to meet the goals of the Paris Climate Change Agreement. The COP is organized by the ±¬ÁÏÍø Framework Convention on Climate Change (±¬ÁÏÍøFCCC).?

Sustainable Development Goal 13
About Sustainable Development Goal 13

Goal 13 calls for urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts. It is intrinsically linked to all 16 of the other goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.?To address climate change, countries adopted the?Paris Agreement?to limit global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius.?Learn more about Goal 13.

Latest news from Bonn

For Benin, making progress on the ±¬ÁÏÍø¡¯s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has meant finding new ways to finance development. Read Full Story on ±¬ÁÏÍø News

The world is entering a period in which abnormal water supplies are becoming the norm, with river flows, groundwater and glaciers all showing signs of sustained disruption, the ±¬ÁÏÍø weather agency warned on Thursday.? Read [...]

Poor management of toxic chemicals and hazardous waste threatens ¡°many, if not all, human rights,¡± the newly appointed independent human rights independent expert on the rising threat told the Human Rights Council on Monday.? Read [...]

Earth just had the hottest August on record, according to newly released weather data. Read Full Story on ±¬ÁÏÍø News

The head of the ±¬ÁÏÍø's climate body?has warned that treating global warming as a partisan issue is dangerously out of step with reality, as he set out a stark account of the economic toll climate [...]

Latest videos

Angry Birds 2 PSA in support of the ActNow Climate Campaign

The Department of Global Communications is partnering with Sony Pictures Entertainment and the ±¬ÁÏÍø Foundation for a second time on an initiative to promote the Sustainable Development Goal 13 ¨C take urgent action against climate change and its impacts.

Earth Hour 2019

To signal the United Nations¡¯ continued support for climate action, the Organization will participate in Earth Hour, a global lights-off event coordinated by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and other volunteer organizations, on Saturday, 30 March from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. local time.

±¬ÁÏÍø launches drive to highlight environmental cost of staying fashionable

It takes around 7,500 litres of water to make a single pair of jeans, equivalent to the amount of water the average person drinks over a period of seven years. That¡¯s just one of the many startling facts to emerge from recent environmental research, which show that the cost of staying fashionable is a lot more than just the price tag.

Air Pollution – Deadly Effects on Life

Air Pollution hurts the planet with increasingly deadly effects on life, the United Nations Environment warns, calling on countries to take measures to usher in a greener, cleaner and more sustainable future.

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