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Is there anything more awe-inspiring than a mountain? It is no surprise that they are spaces of such spiritual significance for many – hosting ancient monasteries and sparking lore that stretches back for centuries…

With the 2022 Emissions Gap Report due to be released in October this year ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Egypt, the focus is on how fast countries can reduce greenhouse gas…

Aidan Gallagher, star of the Netflix superhero drama The Umbrella Academy, is worried that the future of the planet is grim. In a recent interview, the environmental campaigner told the United Nations Environment…

HE Ken Okaniwa, Ambassador of Japan to Kenya, Excellencies, friends. Thank you for coming to this commemoration, to mark 77 years after the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. The environment is a casualty of…

A push to protect and restore ecosystems along the coast of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) offers new hope for dugongs as scientists declared the rare marine mammal functionally extinct in China this…

Today, a major wildfire in France has destroyed thousands of hectares of forest and forced many people to flee their homes. Meanwhile, dry weather, extreme heat and strong winds have combined to fan wildfires…

While wildfires are a normal and even essential process in nature, there is nothing normal or natural about the blazes we are seeing raging across Europe, North America and other parts of the world. The United…

My sincere thanks to His Excellency President of the General Assembly Abdulla Shahid for bringing us together as we seek – a “moment for nature”. Because we are seeing – and we need to see – growing attention to…

Let me begin by congratulating the government of Rwanda, IUCN, the Africa Wildlife Foundation and other partners for organizing the African Protected Areas Congress in a crucial year for nature. Biodiversity is…

My thanks to the University of Oxford for the invitation to speak at the Nature-based Solutions Conference 2022 aimed at ensuring that nature’s solutions contribute to human and ecological communities that are…