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Child artists from around the world have raised $21,000 for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) to spend on climate-related disasters by auctioning off 26 of their paintings in New York last night.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today warned of the dangers of the fight against the climate change – which he characterized as the “defining challenge of our era” – getting bogged down by shorter-term problems, such as the current global financial turmoil.

The former leader of Botswana and the immediate outgoing president of the United Nations General Assembly have been appointed as Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s new Special Envoys on climate change, an issue that has been one of his top priorities since taking office last year.

Repairing the Earth’s badly-damaged ozone layer is not only to be undertaken in times of economic prosperity, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today, stressing that depleting substances harmful to the layer could propel health, social and economic progress.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today paid tribute to the accomplishments of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), co-recipient of last year's Nobel Peace Prize, as he marked its 20th anniversary.

Government leaders must take urgent action to ensure that weather-related hazards, which are becoming more intense and frequent due to climate change, do not lead to a corresponding rise in disasters, a new United Nations-backed report released today said.

A new United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) report showcases the voices of young people worldwide on how they view climate change and what they believe are the best means to tackle the issue.

In a bid to have the United Nations lead by example, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today unveiled “Cool UN,” a three-pronged initiative which seeks to limit the use of air conditioning, slash greenhouse gas emissions and save money.

A new database on the world’s soils offers insights that can be helpful in addressing climate change and food production, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) has named Rajendra K. Pachauri, the head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), as one of its Goodwill Ambassadors.