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Rebuilding beyond bricks: World Urban Forum focuses on housing, community support in war-torn cities

The penultimate day of the Forum’s twelfth biennial session, or WUF12, examined the situation in the Gaza Strip, where the urban fabric and urban...

Drought or flooding? No match for this climate-friendly bean

As COP16 wraps up its global biodiversity meeting in Colombia this week, we are taking you to a frontline in the battle against climate change,...

From Haiti to Ethiopia: voices of climate displacement at COP30

At COP30 in Belém, Brazil, the UN International Organization for Migration (IOM) is pressing negotiators to make climate mobility a core part of adaptation...

A historic course correction: how the world’s shipping sector is setting sail for net...

Every day, tens of thousands of massive ships criss-cross the world’s oceans, transporting grain, clothing, electronics, cars, and countless other products. Nearly 90 per...

Caribbean nations receive life-saving support following devastation of Hurricane Melissa

Torrential rain, storm surges, and landslides caused by the hurricane have left a trail of destruction across the region, with homes flattened, roads and...

UN-backed forum seeks to boost resilience of world’s Least Developed Countries

The third edition of the LDC Future Forum, which opened on Monday, focusses on how these 44 nations can better withstand systemic shocks, including...

Guterres pushes leaders to ‘turn the tide’ on global crises during high-stakes UNGA week

Interview transcriptSecretary-General, welcome to this interview with UN News. In a few days, world leaders are going to gather in this chamber. How would...

UN World Court concludes landmark hearings on States’ responsibility for climate change

Initiated by a UN General Assembly resolution, the proceedings involved 96 countries and 11 regional organizations presenting their views on the “obligations of States...

What is financing for development?

These are part of 17 goals agreed by nearly every country, called the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The plan is to hit these targets...

Biodiversity loss demands urgent global action, says UN chief

In a message marking Thursday’s International Day for Biological Diversity, the UN chief raised alarm over the “lightning pace” of degradation of the natural...

Talks begin in South Korea to clinch ‘essential’ deal on plastics pollution

The meeting follows two years of intergovernmental negotiations to develop a legally binding global instrument that covers land and the marine environment – a...

Underinvestment threatens universal health coverage goals

The report, titled Global Spending on Health: Emerging from the Pandemic, shows a reduction in per capita government health expenditures in 2022 across all...

On Brazil’s Combu Island, chocolate makers hold clues to climate action

But this lush harmony carries a warning. If negotiators at COP30 hope to protect the world’s forests, they must first safeguard the people who...

Earth’s hottest June on record

“These latest figures from the Copernicus Climate Change Service unfortunately highlight that we will be exceeding the 1.5 degrees Celsius level on a temporary...

UN searches for solutions to global housing crisis

This includes more than 1.12 billion people living in slums or informal settlements. An additional 300 million face absolute homelessness, lacking any form of...

UNHCR amplifies voices of displaced on frontlines of climate change

Actor and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Theo James kicked the campaign off at the COP29 Climate Conference in Baku, alongside a group of eight displaced...

COP29: ‘You have every right to be angry’ Guterres tells youth advocates frustrated over...

“You have every right to be angry. I am angry too,” the UN chief posted on social media on Thursday following his meeting with...

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...

Fight against global hunger set back 15 years, warns UN report

“The bottom line is that we are still far off-track towards the goal of ridding the world of hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition by...

Bangladesh: World Heritage Site threatened by ‘heedless industrialisation’ – UN expert

“The accelerating industrialisation of the Sundarbans threatens not only this unique ecosystem – which hosts Bengal tigers, Ganges river dolphins and other endangered species...

COP29: ‘Now is the time to fast-track, not backtrack’ on the path to net-zero

“We need a massive global effort to steer our world onto a path to safety; you are out in the front…helping consumers, investors and...

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,...

WHO give clean bill of health to cities taking action on preventable diseases

Córdoba in Argentina, Fortaleza in Brazil and Manchester in the UK picked up accolades at a healthy cities summit, co-hosted by the UN World...

Hurricane Melissa: Devastation in Jamaica at levels ‘never been seen before’

As Hurricane Melissa moved north of Jamaica on Wednesday, the head of the UN team there said that preliminary damage assessments from the category...