Agriculture
- Vibrant youth gathering sparks ideas and actions to shape the future of our agri-food systems
- Food security and water security go hand-in-hand
- Starvation and hunger-related deaths a reality amid worsening food crises, says FAO
- Feeding people while saving the planet - "Change the Game, Change the Future" online platform challenges youth with delicate balancing act
- World Food Forum - Youth take charge of shaping the future of food at landmark event
- 2021 Innovation Award winners announced
- One day to go: World Food Forum starts 1 Oct with young generations shaping a better future for food
- Indigenous Peoples’ food systems publication wins the 2021 Best in the World Sustainability Report Award
- FAO updates its Members on the implementation of the Strategic Framework 2022-31
- The scourge of food loss and waste needs to be urgently tackled to achieve the world's 2030 target
Climate
- UN chief welcomes China-US pledge to cooperate on climate action
- Climate change increasing threats in southwest Pacific: WMO report
- Era free of fossil-fuel powered vehicles comes into focus at COP26; draft outcome is met with calls for more ambition
- Landmine casualties ‘exceptionally high’, Syria and Afghanistan worst-hit
- Women bear the brunt of the climate crisis, COP26 highlights
- A matter of life or death: At COP26, vulnerable countries tell developed nations it’s time to keep their promise on climate finance
- UN system generates 25% fewer greenhouse emissions in 2020
- New FAO analysis reveals carbon footprint of agri-food supply chain
- Many countries ‘unsupported and unprepared’ to address climate health risks: WHO
- Haiti’s race against the clock: a UN Resident Coordinator blog
Atmosphere
- Quantifying monsoon uncertainty
- Small lightning flashes from shallow electrical storms on Jupiter
- Author Correction: Increased impacts on US West Coast
- Diurnal self-aggregation
- Inter- and intra-annual wind speed variabilities in wide valley regions of the middle reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo River, China
- Importance of a vertically tilting structure for energizing the North Atlantic Oscillation
- Night-time measurements of astronomical seeing at Dome A in Antarctica
- Aerosol-driven seasonality
- North Atlantic climate far more predictable than models imply
- Transport pathways across the West African Monsoon as revealed by Lagrangian Coherent Structures
Renewable sources
- Building Enhanced Climate Ambitions with Renewable Energy
- IRENA Partners with Alliance of Small Island States to Accelerate Energy Transition in SIDS
- Disrupting the Status Quo: Accelerating the Global Energy Transition for a 1.5°C Future
- Indonesia and IRENA Agree Partnership to Decarbonise Southeast Asia’s Largest Economy
- IRENA and World Economic Forum Launch Green Hydrogen Toolbox at COP26
- Materials Shortage Will Not Stop The Energy Transition, If We Plan Ahead
- Joint FAO-IRENA Report on Renewable Energy for Agri-food Systems Launched at COP26
- UAE and IRENA Launch USD 1 billion Global Finance Platform to Accelerate Renewable Energy
- A Steep Path to 1.5°C Needs Leadership
- Leading Players Call for Immediate Actions at COP26 to Accelerate Renewable Energy Jobs