
Cash-strapped U.N. aid appeal falls to $46 billion for 181 million
The U.N.'s global humanitarian appeal for itself and 1,900 partners in 2024 already assumes 40% in unmet needs.
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The U.N.'s global humanitarian appeal for itself and 1,900 partners in 2024 already assumes 40% in unmet needs.
Government plans would blow past limits needed to limit warming to 1.5° Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
A first-of-its-kind provision cites an 'urgent need' for nations to address concerns about autonomous weapons systems.
UNICEF forecasts nearly 96 million children displaced by river flooding, 10.3 million by cyclonic winds, and 7.2 million by storm surges over three decades.
A new report's evidence of threats and retaliation extends to 12 of the U.N. Human Rights Council's 47 member nations.
The world's five biggest science and technology clusters are now in East Asia; Japan's is the largest and China has the most.
The panel said it found evidence of human rights abuses on both sides, but those by Russia far outweigh those by Ukraine.
Some in the developing world fear that the war in Ukraine is diverting attention away from the dangers of climate change.
Despite the absences, the politics of catastrophe and climate inaction toward Earth's impaired health await the assembly's annual gathering of world leaders next week in New York.
'Extremely high water stress' afflicts 83% of the population in the Middle East and North Africa and 74% in South Asia.
Increasing rice prices from India's ban “raises substantial food security concerns for a large swath of the world population."
As climate litigation increases, the body of legal precedent grows, forming an increasingly well-defined field of law.
The biennial report noted the erosion of nuclear security coincides with growing nuclear security dangers and alarming increases in stockpiles of weapons-usable nuclear materials.
Extreme weather events and new records are becoming the norm as Earth suffers warming oceans, fires and rising floods.
The treaty body that gets the worst cooperation is the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
The total number of nuclear warheads fell worldwide, but the amount of operational nuclear weapons started to rise.