UN - Climate changes

1. War-driven energy price spikes highlight value of renewables: UN climate chief

   The disruption of global energy supplies is being felt worldwide, the UN’s top climate change official warned on Monday, as conflict in the Middle East drives oil and gas prices sharply higher – echoing the market turmoil triggered by the war in Ukraine.

2. Why medicinal plants matter on World Wildlife Day

   Medicinal plants and their varied uses span from ancient medicine to modern cosmetics and pharmaceuticals amid a surging demand for more.

3. Over a billion fear losing land and homes within five years

   Despite global progress in strengthening land tenure and governance, more than a billion people worldwide – nearly one in four adults – fear they could lose the rights to some or all of their land and housing within the next five years. 

4. World News in Brief: Guterres calls for fair swtich to clean energy, Ramadan in Gaza, escalating violence and displacement in South Sudan

   The world has “entered the age of clean energy” and renewables are now the cheapest, fastest and safest source of new electricity almost everywhere, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in a video message to the International Energy Agency ministerial meeting in Paris on Wednesday.

5. UN chief urges renewed push to complete decolonization as 17 territories remain

   More than 60 years after the UN launched its formal decolonization drive, Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday urged renewed commitment to completing the unfinished business of ending colonial rule.