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António Guterres warns countries are getting a 'giant fail mark' from scientists and the public opinion over their climate strategies

Students "hold the cards" in selecting their careers and should be mindful of climate crisis when choosing employers, António Guterres says

New report suggests investment in suppotrt of the UN Sustainable Development Goals could protect 450 million people by 2030

Risk of reaching totemic climate threshold set out in the Paris Agreement on at least one of next five years now at 50 per cent, research shows

New report suggests urgent and focused action is needed to protect global heath as climate impacts and risks escalate

Comments come as climate scientists mull mitigation options ahead of IPCC report

As countries meet in New York this week to discuss marine environmental protection efforts, campaigners are demanding a fresh global treaty to tackle the problem

Campaigners are stepping up calls for a global treaty to tackle plastic pollution, as evidence grows that voluntary measures are struggling to turn the tide of plastic waste

A new report finds that annual spending on nature-based solutions needs to increase by 140 per cent, with special attention paid to investment in non-G20 countries

Climate crisis should take diplomatic priority even where there may be fraught geopolitical tensions over challenging issues such as human rights, former UN Secretary-General suggests