The sustainable management and conservation of forests must be considered in the design and implementation of the new sustainable development goals and the new climate change agreement to be adopted this December in Paris, according to United Nations officials and forest experts in messages for the International Day of Forests, observed on 21 March.
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on World Water Day, to be observed on 22 March:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the International Day of Forests, to be observed on 21 March:
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
Following is the text of UN Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the Human Rights Council meeting on climate change, in Geneva today:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the launch of the 2015 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction: Making Development Sustainable: The Future of Disaster Risk Management, in New York, today:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the briefing to Member States on the Lima Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 20) Outcome and the Road to COP 21 in Paris, “From Lima to Paris: working together towards a global climate agreement”, in New York today:
Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks at the launch of Natural Resources and Conflict: A Guide for Mediation Practitioners, in New York today:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the fifteenth Delhi Sustainable Development Summit, delivered by video link from New York today:
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Janos Pasztor of Hungary as Assistant Secretary-General on Climate Change.
