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Noon Briefings

UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s newly released report shows in 2025 the UN development system brought food aid to 121 million people; measles vaccinations to 191 million children; social protection to 84 million people; and 500 million more people have received essential health services since 2018.

Press Release
SG/T/3444

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.

Noon Briefings

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.

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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.

Press Release
SG/T/3409

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.

Noon Briefings

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.

Noon Briefings

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.