Against the backdrop of the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, speakers today in the Sixth Committee (Legal) continued their review of the International Law Commission report’s second cluster of topics, offering detailed accounts of both national and regional initiatives to address the urgent and life-threatening crisis posed by rising sea-levels.
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks at the World Leaders Summit of the twenty-sixth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP26), in Glasgow, United Kingdom, today:
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks at the twenty‑sixth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP26) Leaders’ Event: “Action and Solidarity — The Critical Decade”, in Glasgow, United Kingdom, today:
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message to the sixteenth Conference of Youth of the twenty-sixth Conference of the Parties (COP26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), at the University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom, today:
The heads of nine United Nations agencies and the Global Water Partnership issued an urgent call to Governments to prioritize integrated water and climate action. The letter, addressed to the world’s Heads of State and Government, was released on the eve of the Organization’s climate change summit in Glasgow.
A United Nations Children’s Fund report released today shows that at least 200 million schoolchildren are living in 31 low- and middle-income countries that remain unprepared to deploy remote learning in future emergency school closures. It warns that the situation could be far worse than the available data shows.
In Sudan, the United Nations is working with partners to provide life‑saving aid to 9 million vulnerable people. Operations must continue unimpeded to prevent the humanitarian situation there from deteriorating further. However, the 2021 response plan, which seeks $1.9 billion, remains only 30 per cent funded.
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to the high‑level meeting on “Delivering Climate Action — for People, Planet and Prosperity”, in New York today:
Following is a transcript of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ press conference to launch the Emissions Gap 2021 Report — held jointly with Inger Andersen, Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme, in New York today:
Following are UN Deputy Secretary‑General Amina Mohamed’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the Middle East Green Initiative Summit 2021 Session Titled “International Prospective”, in Riyadh today:
