Environmental issues and sustainable development

Joyce Msuya, Acting Emergency Relief Coordinator, has allocated $5 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund for early action for drought in Somalia, which, according to local authorities, national partners and UN humanitarian colleagues, faces a 70 per cent likelihood of La Niña-induced drought and reduced rainfall.

Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks for the launch event for the high-level dialogue on complementarity and coherence of loss and damage funding arrangements, in Baku today:

Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to the twenty-ninth UN Climate Change Conference event, in Baku today:

The United Nations refugee agency today released a report warning that people forced to flee war, violence and persecution are increasingly finding themselves on the front line of the global climate crisis, exposing them to a lethal combination of threats but without the funding and support needed to adapt.

Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks, as delivered, to the twenty-ninth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) World Leaders’ Climate Action Summit Opening Ceremony, in Baku today:

In Gaza, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports that access to North Gaza Governorate is still extremely limited. It is worried about the fate of Palestinians remaining there, as the siege continues, and calls on Israel to open up the area to humanitarian operations at the scale needed.

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message to the award ceremony for the Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water, in Vienna today:

The just released UN Environment Programme’s Adaptation Gap Report says that nations must dramatically increase climate adaptation efforts and urgently close the $187-359 billion per year gap that exists between adaptation finance needs and current international public adaptation finance flows.

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message for the launch of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Adaptation Gap Report, in Nairobi today:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message to nineteenth Climate Change Conference of Youth, in Baku today: