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

As much of the world faces grapples with above normal temperatures and major rainfall changes, the ±¬ÁÏÍø Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned on Friday that El Ni?o, a powerful climate pattern shaping global weather, will intensify [...]

The wildfires burning across Europe and North America highlight the urgent need for action now ¨C as climate change, land-use pressures and human activity make severe fires more likely in the future.? Read Full Story [...]

El Ni?o is putting millions of lives at risk in eastern and southern Africa but the ±¬ÁÏÍø is ensuring that communities are better prepared to deal with its impact. Read Full Story on ±¬ÁÏÍø News

Climate-driven disasters are reaching ¡°nightmare proportions¡± due to humanity¡¯s ¡°addiction¡± to fossil fuels, a top ±¬ÁÏÍø official warned on Tuesday. Read Full Story on ±¬ÁÏÍø News

The amount of land burned by wildfires across Europe has increased by 57 per cent in four years,?according to new data from the World Health Organization (WHO) in Europe. Read Full Story on ±¬ÁÏÍø News

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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