The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released its latest report on the impacts of global warming: if we don't act now to substantially reduce carbon emissions within the next decade, the planet, and all of us along with it, will suffer severe consequences. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released their latest report in early October 2018, presenting a dire warning concerning global temperature rise. Simply put, if emissi

Overview September 1987: the United Nations made history. For the first time ever, universal ratification was achieved when all 197 countries signed the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer. 30 years later, this treaty is still considered one of the most significant contributions to mitigating global climate change. Simply known as the Montreal Protocol, this treaty was finalized when the importance of the ozone later was just starting to be understood