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Environmental issues and sustainable development


DSG/SM/1805

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the discussions in advance of the Twenty-seventh Session of the Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27), in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, today:

The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) today released a report warning that monetary and fiscal policy moves in advanced economies risk pushing the world towards global recession and prolonged stagnation, inflicting worse damage than the financial crisis in 2008 and the COVID-19 shock in 2020.

In Cuba, the United Nations took part in the consultation process to make reforms to the country’s Family Code. Almost 75 per cent of Cubans voted on 25 September in a referendum on the diversity of families, affection and solidarity as key social values and strengthening the protection of a host of vulnerable groups.

SG/2261

​​​​​​​Pacific Leaders met with United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on 23 September 2022 on the margins of the high-level week of the seventy-seventh session of the United Nations General Assembly to discuss pressing issues for the Blue Pacific and the international community.