Sustainability
Non-communicable diseases killing more people than ever before: UN health agency |
The 2019 Global Health Estimates, released on Wednesday, “clearly highlight” the need for increased attention on preventing and treating cardiovascular...
UN makes progress on ‘greening the blue’
In 2019, the UN system continued to make steady progress towards reducing its environmental footprint, recording decreases in emissions and implementing...
United Nations ActNow campaign joins forces with award-winning Baobab Studios to promote individual climate action
Baobab’s latest virtual reality experience, ‘Baba Yaga,’ debuting in January 2021 and starring Kate Winslet, Daisy Ridley, Jennifer Hudson and...
Fund COVAX to reduce COVID vaccination distribution inequity – UN chief |
The COVAX international vaccine initiative requires $4.2 billion over the next two months to ensure that “sooner rather than later”,...
‘Green recovery’ from COVID-19 can slow climate change: UN environment report |
Speedy and strong climate action can, however, change the temperature trajectory, according to UN Environment Programme (UNEP)’s Emissions Gap Report...
Shutting school systems, wrong response to COVID-19, UNICEF says |
“What we have learned about schooling during the time of COVID is clear: the benefits of keeping schools open, far...
New WHO campaign to help COVID-era quitters kick the habit |
Tobacco kills up to half of its users, claiming more than 8 million lives each year. Over 7 million of...
Developing countries raise climate ambitions to plot path out of pandemic |
UNDP is supporting 115 developing countries, to enhance their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) – the specific steps that each country...
Prioritize health workers, at-risk groups, for COVID-19 vaccines: WHO chief |
“People at highest risk of serious disease or death as a result of age, are also a high priority group...
Cut fossil fuels production to ward off ‘catastrophic’ warming: UN-backed report |
Released, on Wednesday, in the shadows of the coronavirus pandemic, the Production Gap Report also revealed that while the pandemic...
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