The week the world comes to Manhattan: Looking back at UNGA79 | UNGA
Let’s try to unscramble those 10 days for you. This year, some 235 events and hundreds of speakers later, the spotlight was shone on...
WMO partnership to highlight damaging impact of climate change on winter sports
The two organizations are joining forces to call attention to the extensive impacts of increasing global temperatures on snow and ice while producing measures to...
At Global Citizen Festival, UN deputy chief urges action to achieve development goals
“New York, I can’t hear you. Are we ready to act?” Amina Mohammed said in remarks to the Global Citizen Festival. The annual concert dedicated to...
LIVE: World leaders meet to tackle superbug scourge
Antimicrobial resistance, or AMR, is an invisible killer, so world leaders will soon gather at a high-level meeting at UN Headquarters on Thursday at...
The heat is on: We must rise to the challenge of rising temperatures, urges...
The appeal comes against the backdrop of record temperatures and deadly heatwaves – from the United States to Africa’s Sahel and Europe to the...
Zimbabwe faces worsening food crisis due to El Niño droughts
This comes just two months after UN humanitarians declared Zimbabwe as one of the hunger hotspots where acute food insecurity was likely to deteriorate.The...
Another month, another heat record broken: UN weather agency
Global average temperatures for 13 consecutive months from June 2023 to June 2024 also set new monthly records.50℃ barrier broken“Widespread, intense and extended heat...
Extreme heat increasingly disrupting child health, UNICEF warns
“Extreme heat is increasing, disrupting children’s health, wellbeing and daily routines,” said UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell.The study compared averages in the 1960s with the period 2020-2024,...
Attack on a city in Sudan kills at least five and injures more: UNICEF
The bomb hit the Al-Khansa Secondary School for Girls and a crowded marketplace in El Obeid city in Kordofan state, said the statement released...
From Tonga, Guterres appeals for ‘a surge in funds to deal with surging seas’
Speaking during a press conference in the capital, Nuku’alofa, Mr. Guterres called for world leaders to drastically slash global emissions, quickly phase out fossil...
Island nations unite at UN: ‘Empty pledges’ will not save future generations
Separated by oceans, the leaders were united in their call on the international community to prioritize urgent action and financial support to combat the...
What is sea level rise and why does it matter to our future?
The UN Secretary-General António Guterres has been visiting the Pacific Ocean nations, Tonga and Samoa, where sea level rise has been one of the...
We must do more to keep the air we breathe clean: UN weather agency
“Almost everybody on Earth, basically nine out of 10 people breathe air that is essentially unfit for purpose,” said Lorenzo Labrador, Scientific Officer at...
Climate change: ‘Graveyard of glaciers’ lays bare existential threat of melting ice
Coinciding with the powerful and symbolic monument to the ravages of unchecked climate change, the ceremony on 17 August also saw the publication of The...
New how-to guide speeds global race for renewable energy
“Today’s report from the Panel on Critical Energy Transition Minerals is a how-to guide to help generate prosperity and equality alongside clean power,” said UN...
Half the world lacks social protection amid climate crisis, ILO warns
Around 50 per cent of us do have access to at least one social protection benefit – but 3.8 billion people lack any kind...
UN chief to G20 ministers: Collaboration key to a sustainable future
UN Secretary-General António Guterres, said progress on ending the climate crisis, inequality and the harmful impact of new technologies was “slipping” and in need...
Guterres to world leaders: Stay committed to UN development goals
“Let’s keep the SDG commitment alive,” he said in remarks to a high-level event at UN Headquarters aimed at shining a spotlight on the...
UN Assembly President urges nations to sustain momentum from Summit of the Future
Addressing the closing session of the Summit following the adoption of the landmark Pact for the Future on Sunday, Philémon Yang, President of the...
LIVE: UN Summit of the Future
Ensuring that world leaders consider the impact their actions will have on the billions yet to be born this century, whilst addressing the inclusion...
Ukraine Recovery Conference: UN sounds alarm over humanitarian funding
Speaking on behalf of Secretary-General António Guterres, UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner said the UN and partners were continuing to deliver “critical humanitarian assistance”, focusing...
Guterres hails 60 years of UN trade and development action
In a speech marking 60 years of UN Trade and Development – the agency previously known by the acronym UNCTAD - the UN Secretary-General highlighted...
Over three million preventable deaths per year due to alcohol and drug use
Notably, the vast majority of these deaths were among men, with the highest prevalence in the 20-39 age group.The death rates were also highest...
World getting a ‘failing grade’ on Global Goals report card
The 2024 Sustainable Development Goals Report highlighted that nearly half the 17 targets are showing minimal or moderate progress, while over a one-third are...
