Sustainability
World Water Day: Often overlooked, water resources are essential part of solution to climate change
The new global report calls, among others, for concrete efforts to address rising water stress and improve the efficiency of...
UN aid teams work round the clock amid COVID-19 pandemic to ensure humanitarian support to millions
“To stop COVID-19 anywhere, it must be stopped everywhere”, Jens Laerke, Spokesperson for the UN Office for the Coordination of...
FIRST PERSON: The ‘inseparable bond’ between Hawaiian culture and native plants
Mike Demotta is the Curator of Living Collections at Hawaii’s National Tropical Botanical Garden on the island of Kauai. He...
Another ‘tragic milestone’: Reported cases of COVID-19 pass 200,000, says UN health chief
“Every day, COVID-19 seems to reach a new and tragic milestone”, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told journalists, revealing that...
Turn around deforestation in 2020, the ‘Nature Super Year’, says Guterres
The UN chief pointed out that forests, and the global environment in general, are being severely degraded by the unsustainable...
Head of UN economic and social body underscores priority of health, safety during ‘unprecedented’ COVID-19 challenges
In light of this “unpredictable and volatile situation”, Mona Juul tweeted on Thursday that she and the President of the...
UN, an ‘ally’ in Kenya in fight against COVID-19: a UN Resident Coordinator blog
The number of coronavirus cases in Kenya has jumped to at least five after the Government confirmed...
COVID-19: WHO working on supply pipeline for protective equipment and tests
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was speaking during his regular briefing in Geneva where he highlighted latest developments in the UN agency’s support to countries facing what he described as “an...
Still ‘early days’ to assess COVID-19 impact on women, children – UNICEF official
UN News spoke to Ms. Luwei Pearson, Acting Director of UNICEF’s Health Programme Division, about the agency’s quick response to...
Blueprint launched to manage Earth’s fragile peatland carbon sinks
Launched on Wednesday, the guidelines for peatland mapping and conservation come as around 15 per cent of the world's peatlands...
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