Environmental issues and sustainable development

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message for the annual general meeting of the Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance, in Geneva today:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message to the twenty-ninth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) Religious Leaders’ Summit, in Baku, Azerbaijan today:

Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks at the ministerial breakfast of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on plastic pollution, in Cali, Colombia, today:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the Qatar Foundation: “Towards the Second World Social Development Summit 2025: Reinforcing global efforts to achieve the 2030 Agenda”, in Doha today:

Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks for the high-level segment of the Sixteenth Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP16) on Biodiversity, in Cali today:

Peacekeepers, supporting flood response, have airlifted medical supplies from Agok airstrip in the southern part of Abyei to other parts of the region, to ensure medical stocks, and the Mission is doing weekly flights to multiple areas in Abyei helping to provide humanitarian assistance to communities that are cut off because of flooding.

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message to the Virtual Launch of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Emissions Gap Report, today:

The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) today released its annual Emissions Gap report. This year’s report says that nations must deliver dramatically stronger ambition and action in the next round of nationally determined contributions or the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C goal will be gone within a few years.

The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported that an urgent request to access the Falouja area of Jabalya to help those trapped under the rubble was denied by Israeli authorities for the fourth consecutive day, and teams, in Gaza City, reported that shelter support is urgently needed.

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message for the opening ceremony of the sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP16), in Cali, Colombia, today.