Environmental issues and sustainable development

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Amina Mohammed, Special Adviser on the Post-2015 Development Planning, to the “Solutions Summit”, in New York today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Wu Hongbo, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, to a ceremony to unveil the custom stamp sheet on the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development for persons with disabilities, in New York today:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the high-level special event on “Catalysing Implementation and Achievement of the Water-Related Sustainable Development Goals”, in New York today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), to the UNEP Champions of the Earth Award ceremony, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the media after the high-level working lunch on climate change, in New York today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Ban Soon-taek, to the Global Education First initiative event, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the United Nations Private Sector Forum, in New York today:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks at the side event on the launching of the Technology Facilitation Mechanism for Achieving Sustainable Development Goals, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the High-Level Round Table on South-South Cooperation, in New York today:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message for the high-level joint event:  “Operationalization of the 2030 Agenda for Africa’s Industrialization”, in New York today: