Environment

2021 Year in Review: Climate action, or blah, blah, blah?

Conor Lennon/ UN News     Protesters outside the COP26 conference sit

TotalEnergies and ExxonMobil to do seismic testing in whale grounds, Greenpeace report shows

December 15, 2021 

COP26 defined by ‘reinvigorated multilateralism’

Ocean Image Bank/Brook Peterson       Coral reefs harbour the highest

38℃ record Arctic temperature confirmed, others likely to follow: WMO

Climate Visuals Countdown/Turpin Samuel

EU agrees to subsidise two major fossil gas pipelines, fails to kick fossil fuel industry out of decision-making

 

Photo: webshot

Dec. 15, 2021

 

EU Council energy crisis – leaders must end dependence on unreliable fossil gas

 

Photo: webshot

Dec. 16, 2021

 

‘This monster machine is built for profit: nothing else’ – activists scale vast deep sea mining vessel as governments meet to discuss fate of seafloor

December 10, 2021 

Mountain Day: 'Peak ambition must be to keep our summits clean', declares veteran climber

Michel Baronian     Mont Blanc, the highest mountain in the Alps and

Land and water ecosystems, ‘stressed to a critical point’

OCHA/Viviane Rakotoarivony     A child carries water collected from a

Women sweep UN’s 2021 ‘Champions of the Earth’ awards

UNEP   The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) 2021 Champions of the Eart