Time is running out on the second part of the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment (INC-5.2), with less than three days left, as one…
From Brazil, COP30 CEO Ana Toni warned that adaptation must be placed on equal footing with mitigation at the climate talks in Belém
As the second part of the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment (INC-5.2), enters a second week in Geneva, negotiations are wrestling with a sprawling…
AU reaffirmed its support for the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People (2007), as catering for African instruments.
Based on extent of pollution seen, with no global action, plastic production will triple by 2050 hence urgency for the Global Plastics Treaty.
Tanzania’s activation of the “Beat the Heat” initiative comes at a critical moment, as the country prepares to host the CHAN 2025
In December 2024, negotiations aimed at stemming the flow of plastic pollution stalled in Busan, Republic of Korea. The UN Environment Assembly’s Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) had been tasked with developing an international legally binding instrument (ILBI) on plastic…
Building on the momentum of ACS1 held in Nairobi, ACS2 seeks to reposition the continent from a climate victim to a solutions provider
There is also a weather forecast of exceptional rainfall, amounts surpassing the 90th percentile of historical records in parts of south Sudan
ICPAC projects heavy rainfall amounts exceeding 200 mm in areas of southwestern and southern Sudan, alongside central Ethiopia
