Environmental issues and sustainable development

In Myanmar, amid an expanding conflict, an estimated 1 million people are also suffering from the impacts of deadly flooding. To bolster emergency relief efforts, the Acting Emergency Relief Coordinator, Joyce Msuya, allocated $4 million from the UN Central Emergency Response Fund at the end of September.

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s remarks to the opening of the Preparatory Meeting of the twenty-ninth Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29), in Baku, Azerbaijan, today:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message for the Siena College Laudato Si’ Center for Ecology Global Climate Crisis Symposium, held in Albany, New York, today:

The UN Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) and the UN country team there have intensified efforts to support communities following heavy rains that caused flooding. According to the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, more than 18,000 people in Abyei have been impacted and displaced by the floods.

New estimates indicate that nearly 67 million people in Eastern Africa are now in need of humanitarian assistance, accounting for more than 20 per cent of the total number of people in need globally. Humanitarians continue to provide assistance to millions of people.

The representatives of small island developing States and low-lying countries today urged immediate international action to combat sea-level rise — a global crisis threatening the lives and livelihoods of 1 billion people worldwide — during the General Assembly’s inaugural high-level meeting on the issue.

Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to the opening of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on addressing the existential threats posed by sea level rise, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks at the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Moment event, in New York today:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message for the Alliance of Small Island States Leaders Meeting, in New York today:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message for the SDG Media Zone, in New York today: