Environmental issues and sustainable development

In Gaza, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports that access to North Gaza Governorate is still extremely limited. It is worried about the fate of Palestinians remaining there, as the siege continues, and calls on Israel to open up the area to humanitarian operations at the scale needed.

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message to the award ceremony for the Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water, in Vienna today:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message to nineteenth Climate Change Conference of Youth, in Baku today:

The just released UN Environment Programme’s Adaptation Gap Report says that nations must dramatically increase climate adaptation efforts and urgently close the $187-359 billion per year gap that exists between adaptation finance needs and current international public adaptation finance flows.

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message for the launch of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Adaptation Gap Report, in Nairobi today:

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: