Climate and Environment

The Chullpia community in Peru has developed floating solar panels to provide electricity for irrigation projects.
© UNDP Peru/Giulianna Camarena

Green economy ‘not to be feared, but an opportunity to be embraced’ says UN chief as COP25 gets underway

2 December 2019
Global

A green economy is “not one to be feared but an opportunity to be embraced”, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Monday, in a keynote speech to delegates at the opening of the COP25 UN climate conference in Madrid on Monday.

The UN Secretary-General makes remarks at a pre-COP25 UN climate change conference press conference in Madrid on 1 December, 2019.
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COP25: ‘Signals of hope’ multiplying in face of global climate crisis, insists UN's Guterres

1 December 2019

The UN Secretary-General has outlined the “increased ambition and commitment” that the world needs from governments during the coming days of the COP25 UN climate change conference which opens in Madrid on Monday, calling for “accountability, responsibility and leadership” to end the global climate crisis. 

A windmill park on the outskirts of Nouakchott, the capital of Mauritania is aimed at giving more people access to renewable energy sources.
UNDP Mauritania/Freya Morales

COP25: UN climate change conference, 5 things you need to know

1 December 2019
Global

Climate change is happening—the world is already 1.1°C warmer than it was at the onset of the industrial revolution, and it is already having a significant impact on the world, and on people’s lives. And if current trends persist, then global temperatures can be expected to rise by 3.2 to 3.9°C this century, which would bring wide-ranging and destructive climate impacts.