Environmental issues and sustainable development

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:

On 26 September 2015, a High-Level Round Table on South-South Cooperation was jointly hosted by the President of the People’s Republic of China, Mr. Xi Jinping and the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. Ban Ki-moon.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the summit for the adoption of the post-2015 development agenda, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at a side event of the United Nations Development Group (UNDG), “From global conversation to global action:  making the SDGs work”, in New York today:

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the Unilever dinner on “Better Growth through Sustainable Development”, in New York today:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the meeting of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) Leadership Council, in New York today:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks at the International Conference on Sustainable Development, in New York on 23 September:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks at the United Nations High-Level Meeting on Children and the Sustainable Development Goals:  Giving Every Child a Chance, in New York today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Janos Pasztor, Assistant Secretary-General for Climate Change, to the media launch of Climate Week NYC, in New York on 21 September: