UN Environment

Major report warns society is waging a 'war on nature' and calls for all-society push to combat escalating planetary emergency

Church and Italian insurer are latest to join growing group of world's largest pension funds and insurers committed to fully decarbonising their investments by 2050

UNEP warns 1.5C global warming target could be out of reach by 2030 unless nations urgently step up climate action

Condé Nast signs UN Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action, as it pledges to promote sustainable fashion and clothing re-use to readers

More than 130 major banks holding assets of $47tr pledge to align strategies with the Paris Agreement and UN Sustainable Development Goals

A new UN report lays bare a remarkable decade for global renewables investment and growth, but also signals the challenge ahead - BusinessGreen charts the key takeaways

Andersen takes up the role following Erik Solheim's resignation last year

Report suggests the world remains far off track to meeting the SDGs, with high income countries particularly failing to give budgetary backing to pledges

UN-backed coalition of businesses, politicians, and green groups set up in support of action to phase-out HFCs from fridges and air conditioning units

Hazardous chemicals are now 'ubiquitous' in air, water, soil, food and humans, UN declares