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UN Secretary-General António Guterres participates in a virtual briefing to update Member States on preparations for COP26 in Glasgow, UK.

Guterres calls on US to lead global vaccination plan effort, climate action, welcoming Blinken to Headquarters

29 March 2021
Climate and Environment
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The most vulnerable people in the world, like these displaced persons in South Sudan, are more likely to suffer from the effects of climate change.

FROM THE FIELD: Poor and vulnerable bear brunt of climate change

23 February 2021
Climate and Environment
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Passenger trains wait for people to board at the Dhanbad Junction railway station in Jharkhand, northern India, in the middle is a coal-carrying freight train. One of the busiest in the region, millions of people pass through this station every year. Railways are also a very efficient means to move large amounts of cargo over distances.

Tuesday’s Daily Brief: call for emission cuts, AIDS in decline, cyber-conflict warning

26 November 2019
Climate and Environment
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Hurricane Florence photographed from the International Space Station on 12 September, 2018.

Thursday's Daily Brief: Syria latest, tech needs threaten life-saving weather forecasts, #UN75 birthday conversation begins, polio virus nears eradication

24 October 2019
Climate and Environment
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Floating city imagined by Oceanix

Monday’s Daily Brief: 'Waste to wealth' campaign, nuclear power and climate change, 'dangerous nationalism' a threat, Hammarskjöld latest

7 October 2019
Climate and Environment
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By absorbing much of the added heat trapped by atmospheric greenhouse gases, the oceans are delaying some of the impacts of climate change.

Monday’s Daily Brief: UN chief talks climate action at G7, WFP official visits camp in Central African Republic, Deadly violence at Lesvos migrant centre, Security Council meets on AU-UN Darfur mission

26 August 2019
Climate and Environment
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Guatemala in Central America battles the impact of drought. (file)

Thursday's Daily Brief: Climate crisis and food risks, fresh violence threat for millions of Syrians, calls for calm in Kashmir

8 August 2019
Climate and Environment
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Desertification threatens the village of Tantaverom. Mbo Malloumu has taken the initiative to plant acacia seedlings to rehabilitate the land. In the past 50 years, Lake Chad basin shrank from 25,000 square kilometers to 2,000square kilometers.

Thursday’s Daily Brief: Climate emergency, call to support breastfeeding, rising political heat and new investigation board for Syria

1 August 2019
Climate and Environment
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Secretary-General António Guterres visits Mandruzi Resettlement Site in Mozambique.

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
Climate and Environment
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A family in Syria flees a conflict zone in the back of a truck near Kafr Lusein in May 2019.

Tuesday’s Daily Brief: Bicycles for the environment, new leader for the UN General Assembly, UN values, Ebola, Syria and Libya

4 June 2019
Climate and Environment
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