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    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,...

    ‘Global solidarity benefits us all’: Spain makes the case for development funding

    For decades, helping the least developed countries to develop has been seen as beneficial for the international community as a whole, as well as...

    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...

    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...

    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...

    Airing climate justice in Costa Rica on World Radio Day

    In a crucial year for climate action which, in accordance with the Paris Agreement, seeks to limit global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels,...

    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...

    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...

    Preparing for the next flood: Protecting women’s health in Bangladesh

    Sunamganj is a district in the wetland ecosystem in northeast Bangladesh, which is particularly vulnerable to climate change. Floods arrive quickly and suddenly 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,...

    Around 90,000 children impacted by Cyclone Chido in Mozambique

    Current assessments show the storm destroyed or damaged over 35,000 homes, displaced thousands of families, and impacted more than 90,000 children, the UN Children’s...

    World Cities Day calls for youth-led local change

    These pressing issues necessitate urgent action and World Cities Day, celebrated on October 31, offers a platform to reflect on the unprecedented challenges that...

    Water is ‘canary in the coalmine’ of climate change: WMO

    The State of Global Water Resources report released on Monday also highlights that over the last five years below-normal conditions for river flows have...

    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...

    Chile and Argentina among coldest places on Earth as polar anticyclone grips region

    On 30 June, both Chile and Argentina ranked among the coldest places on Earth, outside the polar regions.Governments in both countries issued early warnings...

    Three billion people globally impacted by land degradation

    Abdulrahman Alfadley, the Saudi Minister of Environment, Water and Agriculture was speaking as the 16th Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to...

    Groundbreaking report reveals powerful link between poverty and the climate crisis

    That’s according to a report released on Friday by the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and Oxford University ahead of the COP30 climate summit in...

    Indirect disaster effects cost the world nearly $2 trillion per year, says UN Secretary-General...

    Most of the exorbitant costs of disaster are preventable with proper funding and planning —one of the main messages for this year’s International Day...

    Cities now home to nearly half of humanity: UN report

    In 1950, the global population stood at 2.5 billion and just 20 per cent were city dwellers. By 2050, two-thirds of global growth is...

    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...

    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...

    ‘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...

    The latest UN biodiversity summit opens in Colombia; here’s what’s at stake

    Considered the world’s most important event to conserve biodiversity, the summit is taking place in Cali, the third largest city of the South American...

    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...