Your January Briefing: What to look out for this year
The need to advance urgent action on the triple planetary crisis is acute in 2025—climate change, nature, land and biodiversity loss, and pollution and waste continue to take a terrible toll on the wellbeing of both people and the planet.
In depth
2024 was a year of highs and lows for the planet. From a groundbreaking deal to fund conservation efforts to alarming reports on greenhouse gas emissions, the year was anything but steady.
This year, countries will reconvene to agree on a landmark global agreement to end plastic pollution. They will also come together for the seventh session of the United Nations Environment Assembly, focusing on charting a path toward a more resilient and sustainable future.
The seventh edition of the Global Environment Outlook (GEO-7) is expected to be published in 2025, building on the core findings of GEO-6 and other major assessments.
In addition to further planned report launches, here are key moments to keep an eye on:
By the numbers
Take a listen
UNEP Executive Director Inger Andersen highlights innovative financing solutions and explains why investing in climate adaptation is a smart economic decision. More about the podcast.
Watch
Meet six outstanding individuals and organizations working on innovative and sustainable solutions to restore land, enhance drought resilience, and combat desertification.
Take action
Worth a read
Publications
Decent Work in Nature-based Solutions 2024 report: Investing in nature-based solutions could create up to 32 million new jobs by 2030.
Mark your calendars
21 January: International Year of Glaciers' Preservation
26 January: International Day of Clean Energy
2 February: World Wetlands Day
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4moHello there, The Industrialized World has the Money and Capacity to Compensate the developing world with the so-called Climate Finance to allow the Global South to mitigate and adapt to Climate Change Hazards (US$100-300 Billion). Industrialized World is UNWILLING to VOLUNTARILY pay up. The Global South DOES NOT have the Means and Capacity to Coerce North to do so. Cooperative Game Theory Starting from the Basic Prisoners' Dilemma of: To Cooperate or Not to Cooperate; what INCENTIVES from the South can be Dangled in front of the North nudge them to Voluntarily pay up? We need Economists to Derive Theoretical Models and Carry out Experimental Research in Cooperative Dynamic Game Theory to see what the South can do (INCENTIVES to North to pay up). OR What the Consumers, Climate Change Activists and Scientists in the North Need to Show their Policy Makers What is at Stake if the North Does Not Compensate the South in the long term. We need Rigorous Experimental Cooperative Game Theory Exercises to be Conducted to see How and Where both North and South can achieve PARETO OPTIMAL EQUILIBRIA in terms of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation. Barnabas Kiiza Development Economist-Uganda
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