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The world’s 5th largest pension fund, with assets of over €430 billion, Dutch ABP is continuing to invest in companies that are on a collision course with the Paris climate goals, such as coal and oil companies.

The World Bank and Germany, on September 23, announced the launch of PROGREEN, a new global partnership to boost efforts to stop deforestation; restore degraded lands; improve livelihoods in poor, rural communities; and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

World leaders gathered Monday in New York for a United Nations summit on climate change as scientists warn much more ambitious action must be taken to meet targets to mitigate the effects.

Greenpeace is calling on leaders to deliver concrete ambitious climate plans at the UN Secretary General’s Climate Action Summit in New York on Monday. It takes place just days after millions of people took to the streets all over the world, clamouring for urgent action to address the climate emergency.

In an unprecedented move, more than 200 representatives of Indigenous Peoples, workers, academia, environmental and human rights groups adopted a landmark declaration calling on governments and corporations to urgently tackle the climate emergency in order to ensure the survival of humanity.

A stark warning on the state of the world’s oceans and frozen areas is expected from a landmark UN report, highlighting the urgent need for a global treaty to allow large-scale protection of the oceans. The process of finalising the UN Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC) starts tomorrow in Monaco, ahead of its launch by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on 25 September.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Northwest regional office has reached a settlement with Hexion Inc., a Springfield, Oregon, specialty chemical company, for allegations that the company failed to comply with federal chemical reporting requirements designed to inform and protect nearby communities.

25.000 demonstrators comprising 7,000 pedestrians and 18,000 cyclists interrupted the first open day of the International Motor Show in Frankfurt, leading to the largest mass mobilisation around the motor show in its 120+ year history, and one of the largest-ever protests against the internal combustion engine.

Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg appeared before a U.S. Congressional committee Wednesday, urging law makers to "listen to the science" and take action on global climate change.