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#6463United Nations Day
24 October 2024, New York, United States of America
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#6456Nelson Mandela International Day
18 July 2024, New York, United States of America
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#6448World Meteorological Day
23 March 2024, Geneva, Switzerland
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#6305International Mountain Day
11 December 2023, New York, United States of America
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#6303World Cities Day
31 October 2023, New York, United States of America
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#6302United Nations Day
24 October 2023, New York, United States of America
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#6332The 2023 SDG Summit – the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development under the auspices of the General Assembly
19 - 20 September 2023, New York, United States of America
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#6298International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer
16 September 2023, Nairobi, Kenya
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#6297United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation
12 September 2023, New York, United States of America
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#6296International Youth Day
12 August 2023, New York, United States of America
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#6295International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples
9 August 2023, New York, United States of America
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#6294Nelson Mandela International Day
18 July 2023, New York, United States of America
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#6286World Meteorological Day
23 March 2023, Geneva, Switzerland
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#6285World Water Day: "Accelerating Change"
22 March 2023, New York, United States of America
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#6331UN - 2023 Water Conference
22 - 24 March 2023, New York, United States of America
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#6231United Nations Day
24 October 2022, New York, United States of America
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#6223Nelson Mandela International Day
18 July 2022, New York, United States of America
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#1350322022-06-22
Ibrahim Thiaw appointed interim UN Climate Change head
Mauritanian diplomat and head of the UN body to combat desertification Ibrahim Thiaw has been appointed interim executive secretary of UN Climate Change.
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#1347042022-05-25
U.N., rights groups flag potential violations in $3b Indonesian tourism project
he United Nations has reiterated its concerns over allegations of human rights violations in a mega infrastructure tourism development project on the Indonesian island of Lombok. In light of this, various environmental and human rights organizations have called on the Asian Infrastructure Invest ...
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#6209World Water Day: "Groundwater - Making the Invisible Visible"
22 March 2022, New York, United States of America
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#1331072022-02-11
World set to mark 50 years of UN environmental movement birth
The UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the world's highest-level decision-making body with a universal membership of all 193 nations, is celebrating its 50th anniversary on March 3 and 4, bringing together governments, businesses, civil society and other stakeholders to address the environmental c ...
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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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#1326942022-01-20
World worse now due to COVID-19, climate change, conflict, says UN chief Guterres as he begins second term
New York: As he starts his second term as UN secretary-general, Antonio Guterres said Thursday the world is worse in many ways than it was five years ago because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the climate crisis and geopolitical tensions that have sparked conflicts everywhere — but unlike US Presiden ...
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#1325972022-01-18
Volcanic ash delays aid to Tonga as scale of damage emerges
Thick ash on an airport runway was delaying aid deliveries to the Pacific island nation of Tonga, where significant damage was being reported days after a huge undersea volcanic eruption and tsunami.
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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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#1322742021-12-22
Understanding the Glasgow Climate Pact of COP 26
While COP 26 has come and gone, and the world leaders have since returned to their duty posts, the key question Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) and other civil society organisations that attended COP 26 are asking is if the Nigerian government and other governments of the world will be able to m ...
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#1322112021-12-17
France is preparing to host 74th meeting of the Standing Committee of CITES in Lyon, with the support of the Metropole, and ensuring safe sanitary conditions for the participants
The upcoming 74th meeting of the CITES Standing Committee will take place in the Metropolis of Lyon (France) and bring together members and observers to review strategic, policy and species-specific matters affecting the implementation of the Convention in preparation for the 19th meeting of the ...
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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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#1321742021-12-15
Watch: India votes against UNSC draft resolution to 'securitise' climate action
India on Monday voted against a draft resolution of the United Nations Security Council that attempted to "securitise" climate action and undermine the hard-won consensual agreements in Glasgow.
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#1321662021-12-14
Nature protection must be a key part of our climate crisis response, says Fauna & Flora International
More than any other before it, COP26 was the ‘Nature COP’; the moment that the central place of nature protection within the climate debate was almost universally recognised.
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#1321732021-12-14
Russia vetoes UN security council resolution linking climate crisis to international peace
The resolution proposed that the climate crisis could potentially threaten ‘global peace, security and stability’.
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#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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#1321202021-12-09
Second Committee Approves Resolutions on Climate, SIDS, Biodiversity
The UN General Assembly’s committee on economic and financial issues (Second Committee) completed its work for the 76th session. The Committee, which had the first all-woman Bureau in the Committee’s history, reached agreement on guidance on biodiversity, convening conferences on SIDS and LLDCs ...
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#6092International Civil Aviation Day
7 December 2021, Montreal, Canada
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#6091World Soil Day
5 December 2021, Bonn, Germany
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#1319222021-11-24
UN expert to assess effect of climate change and environmental risks on human rights
The UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment, David R. Boyd, will visit Saint Vincent and the Grenadines from 25 November to 2 December. This is the first visit of the Special Rapporteur to a small island state in the Caribbean. It is also the first official visit since the Hum ...
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#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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#6090World Cities Day
31 October 2021, New York, United States of America
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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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#1311152021-10-25
Xi pledges enhanced coordination with UN for balanced, inclusive global development
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday met with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres via video link, vowing to enhance coordination with the UN to work for a new stage of balanced, coordinated and inclusive global development.
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#6087World Maritime Day
30 September 2021, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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#6086World Tourism Day
27 September 2021, New York, United States of America
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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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#6085International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer
16 September 2021, Nairobi, Kenya
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#1304322021-09-15
Nigeria: Buhari to Address UN General Assembly Sept 24
President Muhammadu Buhari will address the 76rd Session of the high-level General Debate of the United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York on Tuesday, September 24, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) has reported.
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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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#1304342021-09-15
Wish I had magic wand to complete UNSC reform: President of 76th UNGA session Shahid
United Nations: President of the 76th session of the UN General Assembly Abdulla Shahid has said he wished he had a magic wand to complete the Security Council reform and expressed hope that the UN members will take this process seriously as he began his presidency of hope of the 193-nation body.
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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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#6161Seventy-sixth session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 76)
14 - 30 September 2021, New York, United States of America
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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.