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A woman walks through water in an area affected by flooding in East Jakarta, Indonesia.
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News in Brief 1 September 2021

1 September 2021
News in Brief
  • Mu COVID-19 variant tracking latest: WHO
  • ILO: More than 4 billion people still lack social safety net
  • Climate hazards increased over past 50 years, UN agencies warn
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3'18"
Across the world, more incidents of extreme weather events are being recorded.
WMO/Daniel Pavlinovic

Climate and weather related disasters surge five-fold over 50 years, but early warnings save lives - WMO report

1 September 2021
Climate and Environment

Climate change and increasingly extreme weather events, have caused a surge in natural disasters over the past 50 years disproportionately impacting poorer countries, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) said on Wednesday.

A wildfire burns in a national park in Oregon, USA.
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News in Brief 12 August 2021

12 August 2021
News in Brief
  • UN weather agency WMO seeks to confirm 48.8C ‘record’ heat spike in Sicily
  • Afghanistan seeks spike in people fleeing amid Taliban advance
  • 3 new COVID-19 drugs picked for latest #Solidarity trials: WHO
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4'11"
Ice sheets in Jökulsárlón, Iceland.
Unsplash/Roxanne Desgagnés

News in Brief 9 August 2021

9 August 2021
News in Brief
  • 'Code red for humanity' in new UN global heating report
  • Nagasaki survivors 76 years on, fuelling 'powerful global movement'
  • 'Shocking' escalation in violence against Afghan children: UNICEF
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3'20"
The aftermath of Hurricane Irma in Barbuda.
UNDP/Michael Atwood

Climate change affects everyone, but we can still hold back global warming: IPCC report

9 August 2021
Interviews

As preparations gear up for this November’s COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, the leading scientific body responsible for assessing the latest evidence on climate change says human activity is “indisputably” to blame.

Jonathan Lynn, Spokesperson for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) told UN News’s Daniel Johnson, that there is a chance that by limiting greenhouse gas emissions, we can slow down sea level rise and significantly slow global warming.

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7'2"
A wildfire burns in a national park in Oregon, USA.
Unsplash/Marcus Kauffman

IPCC report: ‘Code red’ for human driven global heating, warns UN chief

9 August 2021
Climate and Environment

Climate change is widespread, rapid, and intensifying, and some trends are now irreversible, at least during the present time frame, according to the latest much-anticipated Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, released on Monday.

Dateline Geneva Podcast (Cover)
United Nations

UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva – Deal to end plastic waste, COVID vaccines in Africa, sustainable food call

29 July 2021
UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva

In this week’s show, a global deal to help get rid of plastic waste that’s been signed by 180 countries; a call for a “COVID ceasefire” in Myanmar, how more efficient food production could help solve a global hunger crisis and positive coronavirus vaccine developments in Africa.

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14'35"
Air pollution from power plants contributes to global warming.
Unsplash/Maxim Tolchinskiy

News in Brief 26 July 2021

26 July 2021
News in Brief
  • Rome UN Food Summit action call
  • Nearly 200 nations start climate science negotiations online
  • More women and children killed and wounded in Afghan conflict than ever
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2'48"
Floods are increasing around the world due to climate change.
UN Women/Mohammad Rakibul Hasan

No pathway to reach the Paris Agreement’s 1.5˚C goal without the G20: UN chief

25 July 2021
Climate and Environment

“The world urgently needs a clear and unambiguous commitment to the 1.5 degree goal of the Paris Agreement from all G20 nations”, António Guterres said on Sunday after the Group failed to agree on the wording of key climate change commitments during their recent Ministerial Meeting on Environment, Climate and Energy.

UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed meets women producers at a farmers’ market in Circo Massimo, Rome.
UN Photo

Farmers the ‘lifeblood of our food systems’, deputy UN chief highlights, ahead of key summit

24 July 2021
Women

Farmers, especially women and indigenous people, work tirelessly to put food on our tables. UN Deputy Secretary General Amina Mohammed met on Saturday women producers at a farmers’ market in Circo Massimo, Rome, ahead of the Food Systems Pre-Summit taking place next week.