Climate and Environment

Secretary-General António Guterres delivers an address at a 'Special Talk on Sustainable Development and Climate Change', in Islamabad, Pakistan.
UN News/May Yaacoub

In Pakistan, Guterres urges world to step up climate action, praises support to Afghan refugees

16 February 2020
Asia Pacific

UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Sunday began a three-day visit to Pakistan, recognizing the country’s decades of “outstanding generosity and solidarity” as one of the world’s largest hosts of refugees, and highlighting its commitment to climate action.  

Norrmjöle Beach out of Umeå in northern Sweden.
WMO/Ulla Nordlinder

Ocean Conference has potential to be a ‘global game-changer’

4 February 2020

The second global Ocean Conference taking place in Portugal in a few months’ time promises to be “a critical moment” for the health of life under water and on land, the President of the UN General Assembly said on Tuesday, as preparations got underway.