The Green Climate Fund (GCF) welcomes the Swedish government’s pledge of SEK 8 billion (USD 763 million) for the Fund’s second replenishment. Sweden has been a long-term contributor to GCF, supporting ...

The United Nations University (UNU) has launched a new Hub on Water in a Changing Environment (WICE) at Lund University. This is the fourth UNU Hub globally and the second in Europe, working closely ...

The Swedish NGO Barnfonden, the Spanish NGO Educo and the Italian NGO WeWorld are launching the initiative Grow the Future to make children affected by environment and climate crisis part of the ...

Thank you for joining us today. We are racing the clock. Violent weather is inflicting human tragedy and economic destruction worldwide. And efforts to limit the rise in global temperature to 1.5 ...

It is a pleasure to join you. We need every country to prepare and submit ambitious new national climate action plans – or NDCs – by COP30 next year, as promised. These must align with 1.5 degrees, ...

© UNICEF/Dar Al Mussawir - People gather around a bombed building in a southern suburb of Beirut. UNRWA confirmed another six staff have been killed, bringing the ...

“I thank you, President Aliyev, the COP President, Mukhtar Babayev, and the Government of Azerbaijan for your welcome and hospitality.

First of all, I want to thank South Africa and the European Union and our co-chairs for the extraordinary work that in a very limited amount of time they were able to produce, and to say that we are ...

It is a pleasure to join you today. And I thank the COP Presidency for bringing us together. The gains many of you have helped to secure on loss and damage must not themselves be lost. Our world is ...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) will launch its flagship State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) 2024 report at an online event on Friday 8 November. In 2023, the report ...

Philippe Lazzarini (on screen), Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), briefs the informal meeting of the General Assembly ...

Today’s Adaptation Gap report is clear: climate calamity is the new reality. And we’re not keeping up. Earth’s ablaze. And humanity’s exposed. This year, we’ve suffered the hottest day, and the ...