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World Water Week, which convened this year on the theme 'Energy and Water,' closed with a call for inclusion of a standalone water target in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) under the post-2015...

Two websites are under way that will serve as information resources on events and activities planned for the 2015 International Year of Soils (IYS). The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)...

KGW reported last week that a new climate change report focuses on decreasing snowpack over the Cascades due to warming temperatures. Rod Hill, KGW meteorologist, will include in this story, more details regarding the report.

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As part of its Momentum for Change initiative, the UNFCCC Secretariat will launch a documentary on climate action during Climate Week NYC, scheduled for 22-...

Scientists at the UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) and the Natural History Museum, London, UK, have published a worldwide synthetic analysis of how individual species in four taxonomic groups, namely invertebrates, reptiles and amphibians,...

United Nations Secretary-General Appoints Independent Expert Advisory Group on the Data Revolution for Sustainable Development 
 
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced the establishment of an Independent Expert Advisory Group on the...

Global Water Partnership (GWP) is introducing several new publications at World Water Week 2014: two GWP Technical Committee Background Papers, one Perspectives Paper, one Briefing Note and one...

The global Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) Flagship Programme's Mountain Ecosystems Programme has issued a project brochure outlining EbA work underway in the Nor Yauyos Cochas Landscape Reserve (RPNYC) in the...

REDD+ practitioners now have a new guide to good practices in forest governance data collection. The new publication, Assessing Forest Governance: A Practical Guide to Data Collection, Analysis and Use, has been released by FAO – through the UN-REDD Programme – and the...

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