Global biodiversity agreement mobilises $200 billion boost for nature
Delegates met in Rome this week for the resumption of the UN Biodiversity Conference to hammer out an agreement at COP16.2 after attempts to...
World’s forests at serious risk from warming planet, fires and pests
In a call to world leaders to boost protection of forests as they prepare for the COP-30 climate summit in Belem, Brazil, the UN...
Belém COP30 delivers climate finance boost and a pledge to plan fossil fuel transition
Climate disinformation: Commitment to promote information integrity and counter false narratives.The final decision emphasises solidarity and investment, setting ambitious financial targets while leaving energy...
Climate change takes increasingly extreme toll on African countries
“Extreme weather and climate change impacts are hitting every single aspect of socio-economic development in Africa and exacerbating hunger, insecurity and displacement,” the UN...
Guterres urges Caribbean leaders to keep pushing for peace, climate action
Mr. Guterres was speaking during the opening of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government Meeting in the capital Bridgetown, where he called for...
COP29: Push for agreement on a new climate finance deal ‘right from the start’
“Let’s dispense with any idea that climate finance is charity;” runaway climate change is impacting “every single individual in the world one way or...
Guterres hails Papua New Guinea as an example of diversity, dialogue and climate action
António Guterres is the first serving UN Secretary-General to visit the country, which is celebrating 50 years of independence.He praised its tremendous diversity, with...
UN urges MPs to deliver on development promises for 600 million in landlocked nations
Speaking at Monday’s Parliamentary Forum of the Third UN Conference on LLDCs, senior UN leaders stressed that political will, matched with national legislative action,...
How was the Moon formed?
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A lot of expensive and complicated research has been conducted to unearth the real origin of the Moon, but to this...
Scaling up or losing steam? Parliamentarians debate the future of the SDGs
Amid deepening global debt, taxation disputes and a widening gap between ambition and action, tensions flared over how (and whether) the SDGs can still...
How climate change is threatening human rights
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk echoed this message in Geneva earlier this year and posed a question before the Human Rights...
Greenhouse gases surged to new highs in 2023, warns UN weather agency
The appeal comes as global leaders prepare to gather for the UN’s Climate Change Conference in Baku next month, amid repeated dire warnings about...
What’s at stake in the COP30 negotiations?
In practical terms, the debates at COP30 revolve around three big questions:1) How can countries ramp up climate action?With the planet heating at record...
As global crises deepen, leaders in Doha urge shift from promises to action
The discussions took place at the Doha Solutions Forum for Social Development and the first leaders’ meeting of the Global Alliance Against Hunger and...
‘Leave no one behind’: As wealth gap widens, UN calls for new industrial deal...
“First, we need to end the war. Then, we have to restart the factories,” says Basher Abdullah, advisor to Sudan’s Minister of Industry and...
In New Year’s Message, Guterres urges countries to drastically slash emissions and ‘exit this...
Reflecting on 2024, he stated that “hope has been hard to find”, with wars causing enormous pain, suffering and displacement, and inequalities and divisions...
Science180 Launches Shocking Non-Evolution, Non-Big Bang Scientific Theory of the Origins of the Universe,...
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American scientist Dr. Nathanael-Israel Israel presents mathematical proof challenging the multibillion-year age of the cosmos by calculating the formation of Earth,...
Colombian conflict survivors turn forest heroes in search of climate change solutions
This waterway, a silent witness to the turmoil of the municipality of Mapiripán, has seen it all – the wildlife trafficking, the coca harvests...
Looking beyond GDP to reach the Sustainable Development Goals
The initiative is in line with UN Secretary-General António Guterres’s longstanding assertion that “moving beyond GDP is fundamental to building an economic system that...
Balancing biodiversity at global UN summit in Colombia
More than 190 nations signed up to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity in Colombia for the 16th Conference of the Parties or COP16, a meeting...
‘Plenty of fish in the sea’? Not anymore, say UN experts in Nice
As yachts bobbed gently and delegates streamed by in a rising tide of lanyards and iPads at Port Lympia, Nice’s historic harbor, that statistic...
Drowning in debt: New forum in Sevilla offers borrowers chance to rebalance the books
The Borrowers’ Forum is being hailed as a milestone in efforts to reform the international debt architecture, supported by the UN and emerging as...
COP16: Landmark biodiversity agreements adopted
“This is an unprecedented occasion in the history of multilateral environmental agreements,” Camila Paz Romero, spokesperson for Indigenous Peoples at the summit, told UN...
2025 agenda: ‘We must not let opportunities pass,’ says UN Assembly President
Under the theme Unity in Diversity, he emphasised the need for collective action to address pressing global challenges and deliver tangible progress. Highlighting the mandates...
