SDGs

Cassava farmer in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) yields returns from sustainable farming.
UN Environment

‘Disaster resilient’ farming reduces agriculture risks, yields economic gains, says new UN agriculture agency report

13 May 2019
Global

A scale of economic gains through easy-to-implement "disaster resilient" farming practices was revealed on Monday at the launch of a new study by the United Nations agriculture agency.

Secretary-General António Guterres attends a morning breakfast with climate action-focused Maori and Pasifika youth.
UN Photo/Mark Garten

Climate action: 4 shifts the UN chief encourages Governments to make

12 May 2019
Global

Speaking to young Māoris and people of the Pacific islands in New Zealand on Monday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said “nature does not negotiate” and emphasized four key measures that Governments should prioritize in order to reach carbon neutrality by 2050.

My favorite place by Olga Lavrushko, Ukraine. One of the winners of the International Forest Photograph Contest.
Olga Lavrushko

Ensuring the ‘lungs of the planet’ keep us alive: 5 things you need to know about forests and the UN

10 May 2019
Global

Forests are vitally important for sustaining life on Earth, and play a major role in the fight against climate change. With the 2019 session of the United Nations Forum on Forests wrapping up on Friday in New York, we delve deeper into the subject, and find out what the UN is doing to safeguard and protect them.

People living on the Comoros archipelago in the Indian Ocean are needing to adapt to climate change.
UNDP Comoros/James Stapley

Climate change: ‘A moral, ethical and economic imperative’ to slow global warming say UN leaders, calling for more action

9 May 2019

It is nothing less than a “moral, ethical and economic imperative” to take more action to mitigate the existential threat posed by climate change, said top executives from across the United Nations system on Thursday.

A village bank in Takeo province, Cambodia. Photo: Brett Matthews
Brett Matthews

Thursday’s Daily Brief: ambulance attack in Libya, #GlobalGoals defenders, human rights in Cambodia, Swine Fever

9 May 2019
Global

On Thursday, we cover: a tragic attack against an ambulance in Libya; six new advocates for the 17 Sustainable Development Goals; a call for a change in political culture in Cambodia; and how Swine Fever in China is affecting global food prices.

UN SDGs Advocates
United Nations

New SDG Advocates sign up for ‘peace, prosperity, people’ and planet, on the road to 2030

9 May 2019

As the UN and partners around the world push towards reaching the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, six new influential public figures came on board as official SDG Advocates on Thursday, committing themselves to the pursuit of the 17 goals on behalf of “peace, prosperity, people, planet, and partnerships.”

Millions of children across Yemen face serious threats due to malnutrition, (file 2018)
© UNICEF/Taha Almahbashi

Around 52 million in Near East, North Africa, suffering chronic undernourishment, new UN food agency report reveals 

8 May 2019
Africa

Hunger continues to rise as conflicts and protracted crises have worsened in the Near East and North Africa region (NENA), which is likely to affect food security for years to come, warned the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Wednesday. 

Rows of solar panels at the Ain Beni Mathar thermo-solar power plant in Morocco. (file 2010)
World Bank/Dana Smillie

UN and African Union in ‘common battle’ for development and climate change financing

6 May 2019
Africa

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called for a “quantum leap” in funding for development and climate change for Africa, speaking to journalists on Monday, following the plenary meeting of the latest United Nations-African Union (AU) Conference, which took place in New York.

Splendid Leaf Frog, Ecuador. (19 January 2015)
UNDP Ecuador

World is ‘on notice’ as major UN report shows one million species face extinction

6 May 2019

A hard-hitting report into the impact of humans on nature shows that nearly one million species risk becoming extinct within decades, while current efforts to conserve the earth’s resources will likely fail without radical action, UN biodiversity experts said on Monday.

A cleaning operation is being undertaken to remove organisms which have built up on a ship's hull. (1 June 2016)
IMO/Lee Adamson

FROM THE FIELD: Stopping aquatic hitchhikers to safeguard environments at sea

1 May 2019
Global

A plan to protect the global marine environment from the dangers of non-indigenous invasive aquatic species has been launched by the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the UN’s International Maritime Organization (IMO).