Climate and Environment

In Koyli Alpha, Senegal, women from the community work in tree nurseries created in the village as part of the Great Green Wall Initiative. The reserve aims to improve the living conditions of populations, improve biodiversity conservation and promote sustainability of the land.
NOOR for FAO/Benedicte Kurzen

Tuesday’s Daily Brief: inclusion in development, Asia monsoons, Ebola risk for youth, obesity and Yemen latest

16 July 2019
Global

In today’s Daily Brief: Inclusion resonates widely at development meeting, UN offers help after monsoons devastate Asia, DR Congo Ebola effecting children, obesity plagues island communities, Yemen’s warring parties agree to ceasefire for key port

The women of Bokiat Village, Timbuktu, present fresh onions from their vegetable garden where UNICEF, with the support of Sweden, rehabilitated a manual water pump. (13 March 2019)
© UNICEF

Inclusion, empowerment and equality, must be ‘at the heart of our efforts’ to ensure sustainable development, says UN chief

16 July 2019
Global

The world’s people are demanding “transformative change that is fair and sustainable,” Secretary-General António Guterres said on Tuesday, calling on government leaders to use the upcoming slate of key United Nations meetings in September to “kickstart a decade of delivery and action for people and planet.” 

Secretary-General António Guterres visits Mandruzi Resettlement Site in Mozambique.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

Friday’s Daily Brief: UN chief meets cyclone survivors in Mozambique, Human Rights Council investigates Philippines state violence, UN weather agency tracks Arctic fires

12 July 2019
Global

In today’s Daily Brief: UN chief António Guterres condemns airstrikes on Syrian hospitals and meets survivors of Cyclones Idai and Kenneth in Mozambique; the UN Human Rights Council votes to investigate the “war on drugs” in the Philippines; and UN weather agency tracks fires…in the Arctic.

First Theme flight on United Dream in August 2018- Youth and the Earth. Through cabin decorations and theme activities, we called for more people to support in Sustainable Development.
Xiamen Airlines

Heavy carbon dioxide emitters should take on greater responsibility, key UN development forum hears

12 July 2019

Heavy carbon dioxide emitters should “take on greater responsibility” to address climate change, the head of China’s Xiamen Airlines told the United Nations High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) in New York on Friday.

Secretary-General António Guterres receives flowers on arrival in Maputo, capital of Mozambique. 11 July, 2019.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

In Mozambique, it’s ‘a matter of the heart’ says Guterres, lauding the cyclone-struck nation’s ‘undeniable moral authority’

11 July 2019
Africa

Arriving in Mozambique to express solidarity and see for himself the damage wrought by two back-to-back cyclones earlier this year, UN chief António Guterres on Thursday said “undeniable moral authority” lay with its people, who had borne the brunt of a disaster linked inexorably to climate change, and a warming world. 

Macomia district, in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, has been hard-hit by Cyclone Kenneth, which made landfall on 25 April.
OCHA/Saviano Abreu

‘Nothing left to go back for’: UN News hears extraordinary stories of loss, and survival as Mozambique rebuilds from deadly cyclones

10 July 2019
Africa

As UN Secretary-General António Guterres arrives in the southern African nation of Mozambique on Thursday for a two-day visit, he will be surveying the damage wrought by the deadly back-to-back cyclones earlier this year. UN News reports from the ground, on some of the extraordinary stories of loss, courage, survival and recovery, that have defined the months since then.

Children riding a bicycle in Tuvalu.
UNDP/Silke Von Brockhausen

A quarter of Pacific islanders live below ‘basic needs poverty lines’, top UN development forum hears

10 July 2019
Asia Pacific

While progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has been made over the past four years, some vulnerable island States are losing momentum in the race to 2030, according to discussions at the United Nations’ annual High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) on Wednesday.

WFP disaster risk reduction teams are stabilising slopes that slipped during heavy rains in Cox’s Bazar. July 2019.
WFP/Gemma Snowdon

‘Brutal weather’ continues as Rohingya refugee children endure devastating rainfall in Bangladesh

9 July 2019

Heavy flooding and landslides in the Rohingya refugee camps of Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh, has left thousands of children and families in an increasingly dire situation with critical infrastructure damaged or destroyed, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned on Tuesday, while scaling up relief efforts to those vulnerable children.

Secretary-General António Guterres visited the low-lying island of Tuvalu in May 2019 to see how Pacific Ocean nations would be effected by the rise in sea levels.
UN Photo/Mark Garten

Global response to poverty and environmental goals 'not ambitious enough’

9 July 2019
Global

The global response to realizing poverty and environmental goals agreed by world leaders in 2015 has not been “ambitious enough” according to the UN Secretary-General.

The UN Secretary-General António Guterres at the CARICOM Caribbean Community conference, in St. Lucia. 3 July, 2019 (file photo)..
UN Spokesperson's Office

With Caribbean island life under threat, UN chief pushes to face ‘headwinds together’

3 July 2019
Americas

To counter global challenges that are a particular threat to vulnerable island nations like those in the Caribbean, it’s vital to “face the headwinds together”, especially in the face of the destruction being wrought by climate change, the UN chief told the annual Caribbean Community (CARICOM) conference in Saint Lucia on Wednesday.