Brazil

The United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, returned to Belém, Brazil, early in the afternoon of Monday, 17 November. 

The United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres arrived in Belém, Brazil, late on Wednesday night, 5 November, to attend the thirtieth meeting of the Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, also known as COP30.

A 2025 report released today by the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change, produced in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), warns that ongoing dependence on fossil fuels and insufficient adaptation to a warming world are already taking a devastating toll on human health.

The United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, arrived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Saturday evening, 5 July, to attend the Seventeenth Summit of the BRICS [Brazil, Russian Federation, India and China] countries.

The United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, arrived in Rio de Janeiro from Baku, Azerbaijan, early on Saturday morning, 16 November. He was in Brazil to attend the annual Group of 20 (G20) meeting, as he does every year.

The head of the UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon (UNIFIL), General Aroldo Lázaro, met over the weekend with 13 mayors of the Al Qalaa Union representing communities in the south-west to discuss the situation due to the ongoing exchanges of fire along the Blue Line and its severe impact on the local population.

Results from the Global We the Women survey, produced by the UN Office for Partnerships and the polling company John Zogby Strategies, show that 86 per cent of women from 185 countries cite climate change and more than 50 per cent identify conflict as primary concerns for the next decade.

In Nigeria, the UN, its humanitarian assistance partners and the Government have launched a $306 million appeal to support 2.8 million people in the country’s north-east — comprising the states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe — where some 4.8 million people are facing food insecurity, the highest level in seven years.

In Haiti, the UN and its aid partners are responding in the wake of recent attacks in the Port-au-Prince commune of Delmas, providing food, shelter and other supplies. This week, the World Food Programme distributed food to 264,000 schoolchildren and over 5,600 displaced people in the capital.

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General António Guterres: