On September 21, the same day as the UN General Assembly adopted its 75th declaration that recognizes the urgent need for Member States to act to protect our planet and build back better, more than 560 companies with combined revenue of US$ 4 trillion, including Walmart, Citigroup, Microsoft, JD.com, Hitachi, IKEA, Unilever, Axa, Mahindra Group…
The United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has announced the names of seven young climate leaders – between the ages of 18 and 28 years old – who will advise him regularly on accelerating global action and ambition to tackle the worsening climate crisis. The announcement marks a new effort by the United Nations to bring…
Transcript as delivered of remarks by David Beasley, UN World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director at the April 21, 2020, virtual session of the UN Security Council on the Maintenance of International Peace and Security: Protecting Civilians Affected by Conflict-Induced Hunger Forgive me for speaking bluntly, but I’d like to lay out for you very…
Achieving human well-being and eradicating poverty for all of the Earth’s people—expected to number eight and a half billion by 2030—is still possible, but only if there is a fundamental—and urgent—change in the relationship between people and nature, and a significant reduction in social and gender inequalities between and inside countries, according to a new…
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks on climate change, in New York on September 10: Dear friends of planet Earth, thank you for coming to the United Nations Headquarters today. I have asked you here to sound the alarm. Climate change is the defining issue of our time — and we are at a…
The world is not on track to achieving energy-related Sustainable Development Goals, according to a new series of Policy Briefs launched today at the United Nations. Supported by data and analysis from the International Energy Agency, this series of 27 Policy Briefs provides the latest assessment of where the world stands on goals for universal…
• UN Environment calls for concerted global action on pollution based on its most comprehensive assessment to date of the links between pollution, health and ecosystems • Every part of the planet and every person is affected by pollution, the world’s largest killer • Solutions are within our grasp, but require new policies, enhanced public…