Although the remarkable advances in renewable energy have shown a decline or even reverse over the past year, environmental organizations stay hopeful as more and more countries integrate renewable energy into their power grid.

The relationship between governments and the financial sector is often controversial; consider the recent backlash against questionable campaign financing and government bailouts of prominent investment banks.

NEW YORK – The effects of climate change are felt with more and more pain around the world. Famine ravages the battered people of Somalia. Sea levels rise, threatening to engulf entire nations. Even the world’s wealthiest nation has been afflicted, as large swaths of the American Midwest and South...

A lengthy list of speakers took to the floor of the Security Council this morning at UN Headquarters to debate the security implications of climate change for small islands and the issue of food security. A concept note had been issued previously by AmbassadorPeter Wittig, the Permanent...

NEW YORK - The UN Security Council is set to hold an open debate on the impact of climate change on the maintenance of international peace and security in July. Achim Steiner, the Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme, can be expected to come from Nairobi in order to brief Council...

NEW YORK - The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF) recently introduced a groundbreaking, energy efficient, smokeless brick-making technology to mitigate the emission of greenhouse gases in Bangladesh.

NEW YORK- The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has released a special report geared towards policy makers on renewable energy sources and climate change mitigation. The report contains an assessment of the literature on the scientific, technological, environmental, economic and social...

NEW YORK - A new alliance of 23 NGOs dealing with ocean issues and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) announced the formation of a powerful partnership called the High Seas Alliance, which will build a "strong common voice and constituency for high seas conservation."

WASHINGTON – The World Bank released a report today entitled, Household Cookstoves, Environment, Health, and Climate Change: A New Look at an Old Problem. This report took stock of collective knowledge of actions and opportunities centered on clean stoves was issued by the World Bank today. The...

NEW YORK - The Pew Environment Group, making a strong showing at the UN Open-ended Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea (ICP), presented a lunch time side event on "Bringing the Ocean Back into the Earth Summit". The Pew Group has authored several contributions to the...

NEW YORK- Life within the oceans is facing imminent extinction due to climate change, pollution, and over-exploitation, according to a study led by the International Programme on the State of the Ocean. A group of international marine scientists met at Oxford University in April to discuss the...