News in Brief 30 November 2023
- COP28: UN chief warns that world is on course for ‘climate collapse’
Israel-Palestine crisis: New pause in fighting extends aid relief window
- End ‘repugnant’ chemical weapons use once and for all, says UN chief
Israel-Palestine crisis: New pause in fighting extends aid relief window
2023 is on track to be the hottest year ever and the last 10 years have proven to be the warmest decade so far. These are worrying trends that suggest increasing floods, wildfires, glacier melt and heatwaves, lie immediately ahead.
When it comes to mitigating loss and damage caused by climate change, the global response is often failing to keep pace, according to Gernot Laganda of the UN World Food Programme (WFP).
Cost of eating healthily has risen 4.3 per cent since 2020: FAO
WHO: Europe has highest number of children with type 1 diabetes
Despite intense national efforts geared towards eliminating AIDS as a public health threat by 2030, the Deputy Executive Director for the UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), Angeli Achrekar, says that so far, the “job isn't done.”
Just one book can turn a displaced child’s life around and help unite the world, said the newly minted winner of the UN refugee agency’s (UNHCR) annual Nansen award on T
The climate crisis is also a health crisis. This is the message the UN health agency will deliver to world leaders and negotiators gathering at this year’s UN Climate Change Conference, COP28, in Dubai.