UN Climate Change Conference – COP24

Special Coverage of COP24, the UN Climate Change Conference

2 December-14 December 2018

As world leaders and change-makers gather this December in Katowice, Poland, for the 24^th Conference of the Parties of the Climate Change Convention, or COP24, UN News will provide you with a front row seat to all the action.

Follow the negotiations on how nations can collectively limit global warming, find out about the latest technologies available to reduce the harmful impact of human activity on the planet, stay connected to those who are making a difference, every day, across the globe.

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COP24 closing plenary meeting in Katowice, Poland, 16 December 2018.

At COP24, countries agree concrete way forward to bring the Paris climate deal to life

15 December 2018

Failing to agree on climate action would ‘not only be immoral’ but ‘suicidal’, UN chief tells COP24

12 December 2018

An Earth Council Flash Mob at COP24 in Poland to remind all negotiators and leaders that everything is moving too slow and that we have to take action now.

COP24 negotiations: Why reaching agreement on climate action is so complex

11 December 2018

Huriccane Tomas Floods Streets of Gonaives, Haiti

COP24 addresses climate change displacement ahead of crunch migration meeting

8 December 2018

An electric and driverless car displayed at the United Kingdom Pavilion at COP24, in Katowice, Poland. December 2018.

Taking fast road to ‘e-mobility’ central to a sustainable future: COP24

6 December 2018

Middelgruden offshore wind farm which was developed off the Danish coast in 2000 and consists of 20 turbines.

UN Photo/E. Debebe

420 million more people will suffer if we can’t keep global warming to 1.5°C: UN weather chief

8 October 2018

Interviews

When the Paris climate agreement was signed in 2015, almost all nations agreed to come together to limit global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius but, ideally, to keep it below 1.5 degrees.

On Monday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released an exhaustively researched report on the effects of a 1.5° and 2° Celsius increase in global temperatures.

Conor Lennon from UN News has been listening to what the report’s authors had to say.

The Earth, an image created from photographs taken by the Suomi NPP satellite.

NASA

Global warming report, an 'ear-splitting wake-up call' warns UN chief

8 October 2018

Climate and Environment

A special report on limiting global warming released on Monday by a UN scientific panel, should be heard around the world as an "ear-splitting wake-up call" said UN chief António Guterres. He said the long-awaited findings show that "climate change is running faster than we are - and we are running out of time."