Agriculture
- Canada contributes over CAD 22 million for FAO’s COVID-19 response
- Ministers at FAO High Level Round Table agreed innovation is key to tackling hunger and climate change
- Bill Gates highlights role of data and technology to end hunger at FAO Conference
- First virtual FAO Conference kicks off with renewed calls for rebuilding a better world
- PETER RABBIT™ teams up with the United Nations, FAO and the UN Foundation on Global campaign to mobilize more food heroes
- Global food trade is buoyant, as are prices
- New G20 Garden plants green future in Rome’s ancient heart
- UN agencies concerned by looming famine in northern Ethiopia, call for urgent life-saving action to avert it
- Child labour in agriculture is on the rise again, with further deterioration foreseen due to COVID-19
- Off-farm activities are a growing share of food-system greenhouse gas emissions
Climate
- UN chief: Desertification and drought destabilizing well-being of 3.2 billion people
- ‘Digital dumpsites’ study highlights growing threat to children: UN health agency
- Restoring nature ‘the test of our generation’: UN General Assembly President
- Turning to sustainable global business: 5 things to know about the circular economy
- Guterres: Vaccines should be considered 'global public goods'
- UN-backed report finds no G7-based stock exchange indices align with Paris climate goals
- First Person: Owner of first ‘vegan football club’ scoring sustainable goals
- End war on nature and ensure ocean health, UN chief says in message for World Oceans Day
- Chilliest Spring in years is cold comfort as CO2 emissions rise: WMO
- Global push needed to ensure ‘clean, affordable and sustainable electricity’ for all
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
- IRENA and the UN Agree to Advance Renewables in Peacekeeping Operations
- Morocco and IRENA Partner to Boost Renewables and Green Hydrogen Development
- IRENA Members Contribute to G20 Action Agenda on Offshore Renewables
- Universal Access to Sustainable Energy Will Remain Elusive Without Addressing Inequalities
- China and IRENA Boost Ties as Leading Renewables Market Eyes Carbon Neutrality Goals
- Enhanced Financial Instruments Needed to Accelerate Renewables Deployment in Tunisia
- IRENA Launches Global Atlas 4.0
- IRENA Members Welcome New Framework on Just and Inclusive Energy Transition
- Building a Sustainable Future in Cities
- IRENA and Siemens Energy Sign Partnership Agreement