Environmental issues and sustainable development

Following are Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks at the opening of the Seventh World Water Forum in Daegu, Republic of Korea, 12 April:

Following are UN Secretary-General Remarks at the climate change event at the Spring Meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington, D.C., today:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the high-level special session on the two water Conventions during the seventh World Water Forum held in Daegu, Republic Of Korea, today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon´s remarks at the CEO Summit of the Americas under the theme, “Working Together:  Public-Private Partnership for Sustainable Development”, in Panama City today:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General’s video message to the ICLEI World Congress 2015 (a conclave of over 1,000 cities, towns and metropolises committed to building a sustainable future), taking place in Seoul, Republic of Korea, from 8 to 12 April:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Elliott Harris of Trinidad and Tobago as Assistant Secretary-General and Head of the New York Office of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the General Assembly’s high-level interactive dialogue on the International Decade for Action “Water for Life” — Progress achieved and lessons learned for sustainable development, in New York today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message for Earth Hour 2015, observed on 28 March:

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: