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#1271612021-02-18
'Making Peace With Nature'
A new UN blueprint offers an integrated 'peace plan' to tackle three interlinked environmental emergencies – the climate crisis, biodiversity loss and pollution – that cannot be solved in isolation.
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#1222712019-09-18
'We're losing the race': UN secretary general calls climate change an 'emergency'
The UN secretary general says that he is counting on public pressure to compel governments to take much stronger action against what he calls the climate change “emergency”.
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#599712th Conference of the Parties to the Vienna Convention (part II) and 33rd Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol (COP12(II)/MOP33)
25 - 29 October 2021, To be confirmed
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#5879Meeting
#565412th session of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF12)
1 - 5 May 2017, New York, United States of America
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#1330102022-02-08
13 million face hunger as Horn of Africa drought worsens: UN
An estimated 13 million people in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia are facing severe hunger as the Horn of Africa experiences its worst drought in decades, the World Food Programme (WFP) said Tuesday.
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#5869Meeting
#61542021 UN FOOD SYSTEMS PRE-SUMMIT
26 - 28 July 2021, Virtual, Rome, Italy
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#323425th Session of the Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum (GMEF)
16 - 20 February 2009, Nairobi, Kenya
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#588031st Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (MOP 31)
4 - 8 November 2019, Rome, Italy
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#526038th Session of the FAO Conference
15 - 22 June 2013, Rome, Italy
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#587841st Meeting of the Open-ended Working Group of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol (OEWG 41) - Ozone Secretariat
1 - 5 July 2019, TBA, Thailand
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#614042nd Session of the FAO Conference
14 - 18 June 2021, Online, Rome, Italy
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#5998News Headlines
#1321562021-12-13
5 reasons why COP26 should finally mark a turning point for forests, food and climate
No longer the ‘forgotten solution’, nature appeared prominently in the final text of the Glasgow Climate Pact, the agreement reached at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference.
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#464762nd Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund for the Montreal Protocol
29 November - 3 December 2010, Montreal, Canada
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#567372nd Session of the UN General Assembly
12 - 25 September 2017, New York, United States of America
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#602475th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 75)
15 - 30 September 2020, New York, United States of America
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#1304332021-09-15
76th UNGA session opens, president calls on member states to embrace hope
The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Tuesday opened its 76th session, with the UNGA president and the UN chief imploring member states to embrace hope and strengthen unity after a challenging year of climate disasters, conflict, and COVID-19.
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#588983rd Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol
27 - 31 May 2019, Montreal, Canada
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#588684th Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol
16 - 20 December 2019, Montreal, Canada
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#588785th Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol
25 - 29 May 2020, TBA, Canada
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#600085th Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol
25 - 29 May 2020, Montreal, Canada
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#5888Side Event
#2325COP 10
2010-10-28
Advancing the biodiversity agenda: A UN system-wide contribution
The purpose of the event would be to launch the UN report on “Advancing the biodiversity agenda: A UN system-wide contribution” during the high level segment to share its findings with a wide audience present at COP and to discuss on further expectations and actions from the UN system for the fo ...
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#1202372019-03-06
Africa's green agenda to feature at UN Environment Assembly
The fourth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA4) to be held in Nairobi next week is expected to stimulate conservation on revitalizing Africa's green agenda, an official said on Wednesday.
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#5390Asia-Pacific Regional Workshop of the UN-Water Initiative “Capacity Development to Support National Drought Management Policies”
6 - 9 May 2014, Hanoi, Viet Nam
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#1271682021-02-18
Biodiversity, pollution, and climate change are interconnected: UN report
Humanity is in the midst of a triple-pronged planetary emergency on the verge of spiraling out of control, warns a new report from the United Nations (UN). The Making Peace With Nature report also offers a blueprint on how to tackle the interconnected climate, pollution, and biodiversity breakdowns.
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#1304762021-09-20
Boris Johnson tells world leaders he is growing 'increasingly frustrated' at their efforts to tackle climate change
Speaking during a meeting at the United Nations in New York, the prime minister says the gap between what has been promised by industrialised nations and what they have so far delivered remains "vast".
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#5239Business for the Environment (B4E) Global Summit
15 - 16 April 2013, New Delhi, India
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#4645News Headlines
#1318852021-11-24
COP26: Key outcomes for food, forests, land use and nature in Glasgow
Coming into COP26 in Glasgow, nature was expected to feature heavily at the summit – one-fourth of UK prime minister Boris Johnson’s mantra of “coal, cars, cash and trees”. Food systems – despite the growing recognition of their role as both a source of and solution to climate change – were not ...
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#1270072021-02-11
Celebrating women in science
Welcome to the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. For 2021, the United Nations has set the day to focus on the role women are playing in fighting COVID-19 but also notes that the pandemic has put extra work onto women who typically handle more of the burdens of childcare and remote ...
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#1223652019-09-25
China's SEE Hosts 15th Anniversary Reception Attended by Global Conservation Leaders and Dignitaries
NEW YORK — Nearly 100 dignitaries from around the globe attended the SEE A Better Future reception on September 24. The event was hosted by Society of Entrepreneurs and Ecology (SEE) as part of the United Nations Climate Action Summit – a weeklong gathering of global leaders to address climate c ...
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#1322632021-12-22
Climate change in 2021: There's no turning back now
Across a quarter century of U.N. climate conferences tasked with saving humanity from itself, one was deemed a chaotic failure (Copenhagen in 2009), another a stunning success (Paris in 2015) and the rest landed somewhere in between.
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#1202972019-03-11
Cutting-edge technologies unveiled at Sustainable Innovation Expo in Nairobi
The Sustainable Innovation Expo kicks off today at the UN Environment Assembly in Kenya, where it will showcase over 42 technologies and innovative solutions from around the world.
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#1304352021-09-15
Dendias to Visit New York for 76th UN General Assembly General Debate
ATHENS -- Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias will visit New York on Monday, September 20, for the High Level General Debate of the 76th UN General Assembly, foreign ministry spokesperson Alexandros Papaioannou announced on Wednesday.
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#1321902021-12-16
Draft Ministerial Statement Highlights Environmentally Sustainable Trade
A large group of members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) issued a draft ministerial statement on trade and sustainability on 15 December. The text is the result of the Trade and Environmental Sustainability Structured Discussions (TESSD), where 53 WTO members said they planned “to collabor ...
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#1272662021-02-22
EU launches Global Alliance on Circular Economy and Resource Efficiency
The Global Alliance on Circular Economy (GACERE) will set out to bring together governments and organisations, to push forward a ‘global impetus’ for initiatives related to the circular economy transition. In the margins of the fifth UN Environment Assembly, the EU, teaming up with the United Na ...
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#5850Earth Day 2019
22 April 2019, New York, United States of America
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#3237Eighth Session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
18 - 29 May 2009, New York, United States of America
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#1291592021-06-08
End war on nature and ensure ocean health, UN chief says in message for World Oceans Day
The annual commemoration on 8 June is a reminder of the major role oceans have in everyday life as “the lungs of our Planet” and as a source of food and medicine.
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#1203332019-03-13
Environment damage behind 1 in 4 global deaths, disease, says landmark UN report
A quarter of all premature deaths and diseases worldwide are due to manmade pollution and environmental damage, the United Nations said Wednesday (March 13) in a landmark report on the planet's parlous state.
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#1303722021-09-13
Environmental threats ‘greatest challenge to human rights’: UN
Environmental threats are worsening conflicts worldwide and will soon constitute the biggest challenge to human rights, the United Nations has warned.
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#1296342021-07-23
Extreme weather events put spotlight on climate change's toll on US infrastructure
In New Delhi on a visit, Abdulla Shahid said in a speech that the central theme of the 76th session of the UN, expected to start from 15 September, would be recovery
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#5258FAO Council (146th Session)
22 - 26 April 2013, Rome, Italy
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#5259FAO Council (147th Session)
24 - 25 June 2013, Rome, Italy
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#1229062019-11-07
FAO Director General calls for ocean sustainable solutions for fisheries
Various investments in ocean sustainability will raise the amount of fish to feed the poor, helping drive progress towards the eradication of hunger which is the lynchpin for achieving the other Sustainable Development Goals, FAO Director-General Qu Dongyu said in a speech.
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#1272252021-02-19
FAO honoured to take rotating chairmanship of Tripartite
The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, today took over the rotating chairmanship of the Tripartite Secretariat from the World Organisation for Animal Health’s (OIE) Director-General, Monique Eloit.
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#1275392021-03-04
Farmers and rights groups boycott food summit over big business links
An international food summit to address growing hunger and diet-related disease is in disarray as hundreds of farmers’ and human rights groups are planning a boycott.