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UNEP Chief Inger Andersen Says it’s Easy to Forget all the Environmental Progress Made Over the Past 50 Years. Climate Change Is Another Matter

“We have to ensure that that which we leave is a comparable value or better than how we receive it,” she says. “It is so simple, yet people get so conflicted around this.”

By Katie Surma

Inger Andersen, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP)gives an interview at the UNEP Headquarters in Nairobi on Feb. 22, 2022 Credit: Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty Images
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg holds a news conference holds a press conference ahead of the NATO leaders summit held in Spain's capital Madrid, at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium on June 27, 2022. Credit: NATO/POOL/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

NATO Moves to Tackle Military Greenhouse Gas Emissions Even While Girding Against Russia

By Marianne Lavelle

Smoke rises from a coal-powered power station in Datong, China's northern Shanxi province on Nov. 3, 2021. Credit: Noel Celis/AFP via Getty Images

China Ramps Up Coal Power to Boost Post-Lockdown Growth

By Eleanor Olcott, The Financial Times

Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate uses a megaphone while marching with environmental demonstrators through central Stockholm during a protest organized by Fridays for Future against perceived inaction by governments towards climate change last week in Stockholm. Climate activist organizations, including Fridays For Future, protested on the side-lines of the Stockholm 50+ climate summit, and the youth-led Aurora movement announced details of their legal action against the Swedish state in relation to their climate policies. Credit: Jonas Gratzer/Getty Images.

Fifty Years After the UN’s Stockholm Environment Conference, Leaders Struggle to Realize its Vision of ‘a Healthy Planet’

By Katie Surma

Geothermal power station at Olkaria in Hells Gate National Park in Kenya. Credit: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Can Africa Grow Without Fossil Fuels?

By David Pilling, The Financial Times

Indigenous Land Rights Are Critical to Realizing Goals of the Paris Climate Accord, a New Study Finds

By Katie Surma

Chancellor Olaf Scholz speaks in a general debate in a plenary session in the Bundestag. Credit: Kay Nietfeld/picture alliance via Getty Images

Germany’s New Government Had Big Plans on Climate, Then Russia Invaded Ukraine. What Happens Now?

By Dan Gearino

Manjai Sah outside his house in Pir-muhammadpur village which was twice submerged by flooding. Credit: Gideon Mendel/Corbis via Getty Images

Latest IPCC Report Marks Progress on Climate Justice

By Bob Berwyn

A convoy of Russian military vehicles is seen as the vehicles move towards border in Donbas region of eastern Ukraine on Feb. 23, 2022 in Russian border city Rostov. Credit: Stringer/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Whatever His Motives, Putin’s War in Ukraine Is Fueled by Oil and Gas

By Marianne Lavelle

An Indian boy walks through plastic waste on Juhu beach in Mumbai on June 2, 2018. Credit: Punit Paranjpe/AFP via Getty Images

For the First Time, Nations Band Together in a Move Toward Ending Plastics Pollution

By James Bruggers

UN Secretary-General António Guterres appears on a screen as he delivers a remote speech at the opening of a session of the UN Human Rights Council on Feb. 28, 2022 in Geneva. Credit: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images

‘Delay is Death,’ said UN Chief António Guterres of the New IPCC Report Showing Climate Impacts Are Outpacing Adaptation Efforts

By Bob Berwyn

Children play in piles of plastic waste collected for recycling in Makassar, Indonesia, in February 2022. Credit: Andri Saputra / AFP via Getty Images.

Biden Could Score a Climate Victory in a Single Word: Plastics

By James Bruggers

Workers carry and organize plastic bottles in the Dongxiaokou village on the outskirts of Beijing. Credit: Ryan Pyle/Corbis via Getty Images

World Talks on a Treaty to Control Plastic Pollution Are Set for Nairobi in February. How To Do So Is Still Up in the Air

By James Bruggers

Activists seen holding banner during a protest ahead of the COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow. Credit: Hesther Ng/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

At COP26, a Consensus That Developing Nations Need Far More Help Countering Climate Change

By Agya K. Aning

A city worker in Glasgow, Scotland scrapes COP26 climate protest posters off a boarded-up storefront on Sauchiehall Street, where the week before thousands of demonstrators marched to express their disappointment with the lack of progress at the annual United Nations negotiations. Credit: Bob Berwyn/Inside Climate News

COP Negotiators Demand Nations do More to Curb Climate Change, but Required Emissions Cuts Remain Elusive

By Bob Berwyn

Britain's President for COP26 Alok Sharma speaks with members of his team following an informal stocktaking session at the COP26 Climate Change Conference in Glasgow on Nov. 12, 2021. Credit: Ben Stansall/AFP via Getty Images

In a Stark Letter, and In Person, Researchers Urge World Leaders at COP26 to Finally Act on Science

By Bob Berwyn

Demonstrators join the Fridays For Future march on Nov. 5, 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland. Credit: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

The Young Climate Diplomats Fighting to Save Their Countries

By Delger Erdenesanaa

An oil pumpjack is seen on April 16, 2021 near Eldorado, Texas. Credit: Francois Picard/AFP via Getty Images

In Glasgow, COP26 Negotiators Do Little to Cut Emissions, but Allow Oil and Gas Executives to Rest Easy

By Nicholas Kusnetz

People are seen gathered on George Square during a rally on Nov. 5, 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland. Credit: Peter Summers/Getty Images

At COP26, Youth Activists From Around the World Call Out Decades of Delay

By Delger Erdenesanaa

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