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The amount of land burned by wildfires across Europe has increased by 57 per cent in four years,\u00a0according to new data from the World Health Organization (WHO) in Europe. Read Full Story on UN News<\/p><\/div><\/article>
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<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>dpicampaigns<\/a><\/span><\/span>2026-07-23T08:00:00-04:00<\/span>Satellites can now spot methane leaks in real time \u2013 but most go unfixed<\/a><\/h4>
Satellites can now spot major methane leaks from space within days. Yet only 13 per cent of those alerts lead to any response from the governments or companies responsible. Read Full Story on UN News<\/p><\/div><\/article>
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<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>dpicampaigns<\/a><\/span><\/span>2026-07-22T08:00:00-04:00<\/span>Security Council LIVE: Can critical minerals fuel peace and prosperity instead of conflict?<\/a><\/h4>
The Security Council is meeting now in New York to debate critical minerals \u2014 the lithium, cobalt and copper powering the clean energy transition. Demand is set to triple by 2030. The question: will this [...]<\/p><\/div><\/article>
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<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>dpicampaigns<\/a><\/span><\/span>2026-07-20T08:00:00-04:00<\/span>Moon Day focuses growing concerns around space junk<\/a><\/h4>
Amid surging lunar exploration, the UN on Monday urged governments to ensure that humanity's return to the Moon does not come at the expense of planet Earth \u2013 or the long-term sustainability of space. Read [...]<\/p><\/div><\/article>
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<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>dpicampaigns<\/a><\/span><\/span>2026-07-09T08:00:00-04:00<\/span>Peak heat in Europe just broke historic 1970s records<\/a><\/h4>
This year marks the hottest June recorded for Western Europe and the second warmest globally, according to the latest report from a climate tracking service released on Thursday. Read Full Story on UN News<\/p><\/div><\/article><\/section><\/div>
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Building on the climate action momentum, the Secretary-General will launch his Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change on 27 July to amplify youth voices and to engage young people in an open and transparent dialogue as the UN gears up to raise ambition and accelerate action to address the climate crisis.<\/p><\/div><\/article>
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<\/a>About COP23<\/strong><\/p>\nThe 2017 UN Climate Conference takes place in Bonn, Germany, from 6-18 November. Leaders of national governments, cities, states, business, investors, NGOs and civil society will gather to speed up climate action to meet the goals of the Paris Climate Change Agreement. The COP is organized by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).\u00a0Visit the official COP23 website.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>
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\nAbout Sustainable Development Goal 13<\/strong><\/p>\nGoal 13 calls for urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts. It is intrinsically linked to all 16 of the other goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.\u00a0To address climate change, countries adopted the\u00a0Paris Agreement<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>to limit global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius.\u00a0Learn more about Goal 13.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>
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