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#127161
2021-02-18

'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.

News Headlines
#122271
2019-09-18

'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”.

Meeting
#5654

12th session of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF12)

1 - 5 May 2017, New York, United States of America

News Headlines
#133010
2022-02-08

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.

Meeting
#6154

2021 UN FOOD SYSTEMS PRE-SUMMIT

26 - 28 July 2021, Virtual, Rome, Italy

Meeting
#3234
Meeting
#5260

38th Session of the FAO Conference

15 - 22 June 2013, Rome, Italy

Meeting
#6140

42nd Session of the FAO Conference

14 - 18 June 2021, Online, Rome, Italy

News Headlines
#132156
2021-12-13

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.

Meeting
#4647
Meeting
#5673

72nd Session of the UN General Assembly

12 - 25 September 2017, New York, United States of America

Meeting
#6024

75th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 75)

15 - 30 September 2020, New York, United States of America

News Headlines
#130433
2021-09-15

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.

Side Event
#2325
COP 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 ...

News Headlines
#120237
2019-03-06

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.

News Headlines
#127168
2021-02-18

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.

News Headlines
#130476
2021-09-20

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".

Meeting
#5239

Business for the Environment (B4E) Global Summit

15 - 16 April 2013, New Delhi, India

News Headlines
#131885
2021-11-24

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 ...

News Headlines
#127007
2021-02-11

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 ...

News Headlines
#122365
2019-09-25

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 ...

News Headlines
#132263
2021-12-22

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.

News Headlines
#120297
2019-03-11

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.

News Headlines
#130435
2021-09-15

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.

News Headlines
#132190
2021-12-16

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 ...

News Headlines
#127266
2021-02-22

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 ...

Meeting
#5850

Earth Day 2019

22 April 2019, New York, United States of America

Meeting
#3237

Eighth Session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

18 - 29 May 2009, New York, United States of America

News Headlines
#129159
2021-06-08

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.

News Headlines
#120333
2019-03-13

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.

News Headlines
#130372
2021-09-13

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.

News Headlines
#129634
2021-07-23

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

Meeting
#5258

FAO Council (146th Session)

22 - 26 April 2013, Rome, Italy

Meeting
#5259

FAO Council (147th Session)

24 - 25 June 2013, Rome, Italy

News Headlines
#122906
2019-11-07

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.

News Headlines
#127225
2021-02-19

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.

News Headlines
#127539
2021-03-04

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.

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