Environmental issues and sustainable development

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s opening remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the Compact of States and Regions event, in Paris today:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of David Nabarro of the United Kingdom as Special Adviser on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.  The Special Adviser will work with Member States and other relevant stakeholders to galvanize action on implementation of the Agenda, while also overseeing the Secretary-General’s special initiatives, for example, “Every Woman Every Child”.

Following are UN Secretary General’s remarks as prepared for delivery at the twenty-first Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21) high-level meeting on Africa and climate change, in Paris today:

Following are UN Secretary General’s remarks as prepared for delivery at the twenty-first Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21) Leaders’ Summit lunch, in Paris today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the High-Level Meeting on Climate Resilience, in Paris today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s speech to the twenty-first Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21) Leaders’ Summit, in Paris today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the “One Heart One Tree” event, in Paris today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Martín Santiago Herrero, Resident Coordinator in Panama, to the General Assembly of the Parlatino on “the Vision of Latin America and the Caribbean on the Challenges Facing the Sustainable Development Goals”, in Panama City today:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Mary Robinson, his Special Envoy on Climate Change, in Malta today:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the Second Seoul International Climate-Energy Conference:  “On the Road to Paris and Green Big Bang”, in Seoul, today: