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COVID-19 vaccines: Donors urged to step up funding for needy countries |
This week the United Kingdom began rollout of a vaccine developed by pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and BioNTech, and more nations...
Hunger rising in mountain regions due to biodiversity loss, climate change |
It found that between 2000 and 2017, the number of mountain people vulnerable to food insecurity in developing countries grew...
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...
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