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    Over 2 billion in cities will be exposed to 0.5ºC rise by 2040

    “Almost no urban resident will be unaffected, with billions of people subjected to hotter temperatures or exposed to the risks of flooding and other...

    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...

    COP29: Governments, industry must stop ‘lip-service’ on methane and slash emissions, says UNEP

    That message comes after a new UN report revealed that, over the past two years, a sophisticated system that detects significant methane leaks has...

    ‘A wave of truth’: COP30 targets disinformation threat to climate action

    Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva set the tone at the opening session, declaring that the battle for truth has become just as...

    Partnerships, increased climate investment crucial for sustainable transition, says UN deputy chief

    Marking the tenth anniversary of both the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the landmark Paris Agreement, Ms. Mohammed highlighted the significant progress made...

    ‘No life without land’ says campaigning athlete at UN desertification meeting

    Asmaa Niang, who is from Morocco, spoke to UN News at the UN Convention to Control Desertification (UNCCD) meeting known as COP16 and explained...

    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...

    At Davos, Guterres slams backsliding on climate commitments

    Mr. Guterres was speaking at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, the exclusive event held high in the Swiss Alps where senior...

    WORLD WATER DAY LIVE: ‘A cold hard truth’

    Melting glaciers, climate crises and access to clean water are some of the messages emerging ahead of World Water Day and the first ever...

    People want action on plastic pollution that’s choking us: Guterres

    “We are choking on plastic,” the UN chief told an intergovernmental panel tasked with devising an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution on...

    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...

    Summit of the Future: ‘Critical’ opportunity for safer, more sustainable and equitable world

    “We need greater global solidarity today and with future generations, better management of critical issues of global concern and an upgraded United Nations that...

    Young people take the lead for a more sustainable future

    Observed each year on 12 August, the Day draws attention to the rights, contributions and challenges of young people everywhere.This year’s theme – Local...

    Guterres commends Turkmenistan’s ‘policy of neutrality’ amid troubled times

    The Secretary-General expressed his appreciation to Turkmenistan for hosting the UN Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia in Ashgabat, and commended Turkmenistan’s...

    Celebrating youth: ‘When young people take the lead, everyone gains’

    But after a decade of armed conflict and amidst a severe economic depression, educational toy imports have become way too expensive for many classrooms...

    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...

    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...

    ‘Minutes from midnight’: Mohammed calls for urgent climate action

    Addressing the preparatory meeting of the 29the session of Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Pre-COP29), Ms. Mohammed called...

    Holding the front line against desertification

    Across the world young and old are responding to this threat by adopting new approaches to working on the land that may not only...

    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...

    From summits to street art to schools: Here’s how we’re marking World Environment Day

    Around the world, civil society groups and UN teams are hosting webinars, forums, summits and other diverse celebrations. It’s a collective effort that’s drawing...

    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...

    Seeding gender empowerment: Women farmers in Peru contend with climate change

    Ácora, located in the southeast corner of Peru almost 3,800 kilometres above sea level, is one of the Peruvian regions which has been most...

    The ‘clean revolution is unstoppable’ but will it arrive too late?

    In recent years, one of the bright spots amid gloomy predictions about the climate has come from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) –...