Sustainability
COVID-19: International community must step up to prevent pandemic from devastating vulnerable on the run
“An outbreak of a respiratory disease like COVID-19 could spread easily through the overcrowded confines and unsafe conditions typical of...
COVID-19 effect casts cloud over weather alert accuracy: UN sky watchers
Both the quantity and quality of weather observations and forecasts, as well as atmospheric and climate monitoring are at stake,...
Coronavirus poses latest threat to battered health system in DR Congo
As the DRC has also been battling an Ebola outbreak in the volatile eastern region, UNICEF fears mounting cases of...
UN launches COVID-19 plan that could ‘defeat the virus and build a better world’
“The new coronavirus disease is attacking societies at their core, claiming lives and people’s livelihoods”, said Secretary-General António Guterres, pointing...
UN appeals to all Somalis to ‘come together’ in fight against COVID-19 pandemic
“The UN family in Somalia stands shoulder-to-shoulder with the people of Somalia during this testing time”, UN Special Representative for...
‘Defining moment’ in Afghanistan requires leaders to work together, top UN official tells Security Council
Ingrid Hayden, also Officer-in-Charge at the UN mission in the country, UNAMA, reported that despite international engagement, President Ashraf Ghani...
COVID-19 likely to shrink global GDP by almost one per cent in 2020
Bold and urgent policy measures needed to protect the most vulnerable and promote sustainability. New York, 1 April – The...
Coronavirus necessitates global increase in protective equipment, medical supplies: UN health chief
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told journalists in Geneva on Monday that he had spoken to trade ministers from the world’s leading...
‘Immediate nationwide ceasefire’ needed for all-out effort to counter COVID-19 in Syria
“We need the kind of sustained period of calm that a nationwide ceasefire would ensure because we need cooperation to...
First Person: Humankind’s ‘modern mentality to tame’ the environment: A volcanologist’s view
Ken Rubin is a professor of volcanology and geochemistry specializing in volcanoes and sea level change. Based in the Department...
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