News

June 7, 2022

800% increase in UN appeal needs for extreme weather-related emergencies over last 20 years – new Oxfam research

The amount of money needed for UN humanitarian appeals involving extreme weather events like floods or drought is now eight times higher than 20 years ago — and donors are failing to keep up, reveals a new Oxfam brief today. For every $2 needed for UN weather-related appeals, donor countries are only providing $1.

May 23, 2022

Poland tells Norway to hand over oil revenues. Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki has accused the Nordic country of making “unjust” oil and gas money amid the Ukraine conflict. Norway should share the “excess” profits it’s been making as oil and gas prices soar amid the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said at the National Youth Dialogue Congress on Saturday.

May 13, 2022

Poland is ruining the Belavezha Forest. Poland decided to fence itself off from Belarus with a wall. The concrete fencing is already 50 kilometres long. In June, they are going to triple this length. Dividing the only relict forest in Europe into two parts, the wall also runs through specially protected natural areas. Animals are becoming hostages of political games and ambitions. Experts believe that this wall can cause an environmental disaster.

May 12, 2022

The Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) is being held in Abidjan (Ivory Coast) from May 9 to 20. The theme of the meeting is "Earth. Life. Legacy: from Scarcity to Prosperity." The conference is about a call to action aimed at reviving and preserving terrestrial ecosystems, such as agricultural lands, meadows, forests, wetlands and peat lands for future generations.

May 12, 2022

Environmental Education Day in Russia Date in the current year: May 12, 2022. Environmental Education Day is observed on May 12 in Russia and other CIS countries. This annual ecological observance was established in 1991 to emphasize the importance of environmental knowledge in all sciences and fields of human activity.

April 28, 2022

The Russian authorities are assuming to postpone the plan of saving the planet from global warming due to Western sanctions. The Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation (Ministry of Energy of Russia) proposed to postpone the implementation of the national strategy to combat harmful greenhouse gas emissions for an indefinite period.

March 25, 2022

"Responding to challenges - by overcoming limits." The Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov arranged a presentation of the preprint of the report to the Rome Club. On March 23, the Moscow State University Fundamental Library hosted a presentation of the preprint of the report to the Rome Club "Overcoming Limits", timed to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the first report of the club "The Limits to Growth".

March 22, 2022

World Water Day, held on 22 March every year since 1993, focuses on the importance of freshwater. World Water Day celebrates water and raises awareness of the 2.2 billion people living without access to safe water. It is about taking action to tackle the global water crisis. A core focus of World Water Day is to support the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 6: water and sanitation for all by 2030. This 2022, the focus is groundwater, an invisible resource with an impact visible everywhere.

March 22, 2022

Ukraine war threatens global heating goals, warns UN chief. António Guterres says countries seeking alternatives to Russian energy may increase use of fossil fuels

The war in Ukraine risks putting global targets on the climate out of reach, the UN secretary general has warned, if countries respond to Russia’s aggression by increasing their use of fossil fuels.

March 14, 2022

6 Big Findings from the IPCC 2022 Report on Climate Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. The newest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) paints a troubling picture: Climate change is already impacting every corner of the world, and much more severe impacts are in store if we fail to halve greenhouse gas emissions this decade and immediately scale up adaptation.

Pages