For Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are parallel to the work she is doing to make her city 100 per cent clean-energy powered, by 2032. Salt Lake City boasts the first two “net-zero” fire departments in the US and is currently building the first police department that is 100 per cent renewable-energy driven as well as an energy-neutral international airport. Mayor Biskupski spoke to UN News's Liz Scaffidi.
Cricket is helping Caribbean children to forget the horrors of Hurricane Irma.
The Category 5 storm, which hit in early September, decimated the tiny island of Barbuda, forcing families to seek shelter on the sister island of Antigua.
Support from the UN to help Haiti finally put an end to cholera, will continue when a new UN Mission for Justice Support, known as MINUJUSTH, begins its work next week.
Medical staff trying to keep basic services going on the devastated Caribbean island of Dominica urgently need support, including reliable food supplies.
Dominica is “getting a grip” on recovery following a devastating hurricane which destroyed homes and turned swathes of the emerald-green Caribbean island, muddy brown.
