This archive collects stories in which the international community — nations, multilateral bodies, and coalitions acting collectively — plays a central role in driving positive change. Coverage spans diplomacy, global agreements, humanitarian efforts, and cross-border cooperation that produce measurable progress.
The crucial resolution will help develop a better understanding of the relationship between improving animal welfare and tackling the drivers of wildlife loss, climate change, pollution and pandemic diseases.
The measure calls for an international negotiating committee to set the terms of a treaty on plastic pollution by the end of 2024.
Clean energy investment hit a record $755 billion globally in 2021, climbing 27% in a single year. What made it remarkable wasn’t just the total — it was the breadth. Automakers retooled factories for EVs, private capital poured into battery storage, and governments tied clean energy conditions to COVID recovery packages, pulling fresh money off the sidelines. China led the way, but the U.S., Germany, the U.K., and several emerging economies all posted real gains, suggesting the transition is spreading rather than clustering in one place. The harder truth: most of this money still bypasses the regions facing the steepest climate risks, and closing that gap is the work ahead.
The progress may be the result of related efforts like improved nutrition, housing, water, sanitation, education, and financial security, as well as the availability of health services worldwide.
In the latest announcement from COP26, nations, automakers, and local governments have pledged to ensure that all new cars are zero emission by 2040, and no later than 2035 in “leading markets.”
The Global Methane Pledge announced at COP26, commits signatories, including the US, Japan and Canada, to reducing their overall emissions by 30% by 2030, compared with 2020 levels.
In the first major deal to come out of the COP26 climate talks, more than 100 countries have pledged to halt and reverse deforestation by 2030. The signatories hold more than 85% of the world’s forests.
The countries who signed the pledge – including Canada, Brazil, Russia, China, Indonesia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the U.S. and the U.K. – cover around 85% of the world’s forests.
It is the first ever internationally-agreed tool to safeguard environmental defenders and marks an important step in upholding the universal right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment.
With consumer boycotts, political action, a major international treaty, and huge investment in new technologies, CFC production was effectively brought to a halt over the 1990s and early 2000s.
