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From deforestation and plastic pollution to fast fashion and food waste, here are 15 of the biggest environmental problems of our lifetime.
There are many ways to make a difference. War, famine, poverty, natural disasters — threats to the world's children keep coming. But UNICEF won't stop working to keep children healthy and safe. UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories — more places than any other children's organization.
The World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2024 named three key climate issues as critical challenges facing humanity: Extreme weather events, critical change to Earth systems — which is a new entrant this year — and biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse.
The relentless advance of climate change brought more drought, flooding and heatwaves to communities around the world last year, compounding threats to people’s lives and livelihoods, the UN’s...
Almost two-thirds of over 1.2 million people surveyed worldwide say that climate change is a global emergency, urging greater action to address the crisis, results from a new UN climate survey...
Tackling threats that impact the Earth. WWF’s work addresses direct and indirect threats—and the forces that drive them—to conserve biodiversity and reduce humanity’s ecological footprint.
Using a research method known as horizon scanning, our panel proposed, debated, and ranked 96 issues for 2024, scoring each based on its potential positive or negative effects on biological conservation, and its novelty. The 15 highest-scoring issues were featured in our study, published this month in the journal Trends in Ecology & Evolution.
There are no simple solutions to complex problems like climate change. But there have been times in the past when the world has come together to try to fix an environmental crisis.
The scientific evidence is unequivocal: climate change is a threat to human wellbeing and the health of the planet. Any further delay in concerted global action will miss the brief, rapidly closing window to secure a liveable future.
Every two years, all 193 UN Member States have an opportunity to collectively address critical environmental issues facing the planet. This moment is the United Nations Environment...