Environmental issues and sustainable development

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the award ceremony for the UN Energy Grant, in New York today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer, observed on 16 September:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message for the World Forestry Congress, in Durban, South Africa, today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the General Assembly plenary meeting to adopt a draft resolution to transmit the Agenda 2030 outcome document, in New York today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Thomas Gass, United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, to the breakfast meeting with parliamentarians on the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at a climate change event for French ambassadors, entitled Semaine des ambassadeurs: Vers l’alliance de Paris pour le climat, in Paris today:

Following are UN Secretary-General’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the event “The Role of Nigerian Business and Philanthropy in Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals and Addressing Climate Change”, in Abuja today:

Delays in implementing solutions to the problems that have already been identified as threatening to degrade the world’s oceans will lead, unnecessarily, to incurring greater environmental, social and economic costs, according to a summary released this week of the most comprehensive scientific and socioeconomic assessment ever undertaken on the world’s oceans.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the press conference on the outcome document of the post-2015 development agenda, in New York today:

The 193 Member States of the United Nations reached agreement today on the outcome document that will constitute the new sustainable development agenda that will be adopted this September by world leaders at the Sustainable Development Summit in New York.