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Secretary-General António Guterres (center) meets with Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh. (July 2018)
UNFPA Bangladesh/Allison Joyce

Multilateralism: The only path to address the world’s troubles, signals Guterres

14 August 2018
Global

As the world’s problems grow, multilateralism represents to best path to meet the challenges that lie ahead, said United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday, launching his annual report.

An elephant and a bird in the wilderness of Ghana, 28 November 2006.
World Bank/Arne Hoel

‘Lots of good news’ but much more needs to be done for the planet, says UN environment chief

6 August 2018
Global

Calling 2017 “the first year in human history” that more new clean energy was added to the grid than new oil, gas and coal combined, Erik Solheim, Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has told UN News that “we are on track” but “we really need to speed up”.

A family in Uvs Province, Mongolia, uses a solar panel to generate power for their ger, a traditional Mongolian tent.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

UN launches guide for countries to improve location-based data management to better inform decision-making

1 August 2018

The UN Statistics Division and the World Bank launched  a new guide on Wednesday to help nations worldwide, especially in low- and middle-income countries, better manage data that contains geographical information – known officially as geospatial data.