Sustainability
Progress toward sustainable development is seriously off-track
António Guterres made the appeal in an op-ed first published earlier this week in the Financial Times. “It is both...
Natural hazards don’t always spell disaster: UN risk reduction chief
Mami Mizutori, UN Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), laid out the benefit-cost ratio of building cities that will withstand increasingly frequent climate-related hazards, marking “World Tsunami Awareness...
Tuesday’s Daily Brief: Cameroon crisis deepens, Tsunami Awareness Day, online gender gap, Somalia floods leave children vulnerable
Cameroon faces worsening humanitarian emergency Ongoing violence in Cameroon’s northwest and southwest has created a fast-growing humanitarian emergency that’s 15...
Stories from the Field: Digital Transformation Key Driver in Social Reform and Growth
By Priya Gajraj, United Nations Resident Coordinator in Senegal Some African nations lead the world’s e-money businesses. Several are finding...
Monday’s Daily Brief: US formally announces climate accord withdrawal, young foreigners stranded in Syria, India toxic smog crisis, Ebola worker death shows frontline risks
US withdrawal from Paris Agreement to take effect in November 2020 The United States announced on Monday that it was...
Microplastics, microbeads and single-use plastics poisoning sea life and affecting humans
UNEP launched the Clean Seas Campaign in 2017 to galvanize a global movement that tackles single-use plastics and microbeads. Now in...
Far more needed to ‘confront the world’s climate emergency’, UN chief tells ASEAN Summit
“I count on your leadership to undertake the concrete actions necessary to confront the world’s climate emergency”, Mr. Guterres underscored. ...
UN migration agency appeals to South Sudan group to free volunteer worker and child
According to IOM, they were caught in the crossfire between two armed groups in Isebi, Morobo County, in South Sudan’s...
Coal addiction ‘must be overcome’ to ease climate change, UN chief says in Bangkok
The world’s addiction to coal “remains a major threat in relation to climate change and one of the messages in...
Friday’s Daily Brief: When journalists are targets, landslides in Cameroon, UN Female Police Officer of the Year award
‘When journalists are targeted, societies as a whole, pay a price’, UN chief “Without journalists able to do their jobs...
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