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United Nations Day

24 October 2024, New York, United States of America

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#6456

Nelson Mandela International Day

18 July 2024, New York, United States of America

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#6448

World Meteorological Day

23 March 2024, Geneva, Switzerland

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#6305

International Mountain Day

11 December 2023, New York, United States of America

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#6303

World Cities Day

31 October 2023, New York, United States of America

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#6302

United Nations Day

24 October 2023, New York, United States of America

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#6298
Meeting
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United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation

12 September 2023, New York, United States of America

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#6296

International Youth Day

12 August 2023, New York, United States of America

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#6295

International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples

9 August 2023, New York, United States of America

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#6294

Nelson Mandela International Day

18 July 2023, New York, United States of America

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#6286

World Meteorological Day

23 March 2023, Geneva, Switzerland

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#6285

World Water Day: "Accelerating Change"

22 March 2023, New York, United States of America

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#6331

UN - 2023 Water Conference

22 - 24 March 2023, New York, United States of America

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#6231

United Nations Day

24 October 2022, New York, United States of America

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#6223

Nelson Mandela International Day

18 July 2022, New York, United States of America

News Headlines
#135032
2022-06-22

Ibrahim Thiaw appointed interim UN Climate Change head

Mauritanian diplomat and head of the UN body to combat desertification Ibrahim Thiaw has been appointed interim executive secretary of UN Climate Change.

News Headlines
#134704
2022-05-25

U.N., rights groups flag potential violations in $3b Indonesian tourism project

he United Nations has reiterated its concerns over allegations of human rights violations in a mega infrastructure tourism development project on the Indonesian island of Lombok. In light of this, various environmental and human rights organizations have called on the Asian Infrastructure Invest ...

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#6209

World Water Day: "Groundwater - Making the Invisible Visible"

22 March 2022, New York, United States of America

News Headlines
#133107
2022-02-11

World set to mark 50 years of UN environmental movement birth

The UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the world's highest-level decision-making body with a universal membership of all 193 nations, is celebrating its 50th anniversary on March 3 and 4, bringing together governments, businesses, civil society and other stakeholders to address the environmental c ...

News Headlines
#133010
2022-02-08

13 million face hunger as Horn of Africa drought worsens: UN

An estimated 13 million people in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia are facing severe hunger as the Horn of Africa experiences its worst drought in decades, the World Food Programme (WFP) said Tuesday.

News Headlines
#132694
2022-01-20

World worse now due to COVID-19, climate change, conflict, says UN chief Guterres as he begins second term

New York: As he starts his second term as UN secretary-general, Antonio Guterres said Thursday the world is worse in many ways than it was five years ago because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the climate crisis and geopolitical tensions that have sparked conflicts everywhere — but unlike US Presiden ...

News Headlines
#132597
2022-01-18

Volcanic ash delays aid to Tonga as scale of damage emerges

Thick ash on an airport runway was delaying aid deliveries to the Pacific island nation of Tonga, where significant damage was being reported days after a huge undersea volcanic eruption and tsunami.

News Headlines
#132263
2021-12-22

Climate change in 2021: There's no turning back now

Across a quarter century of U.N. climate conferences tasked with saving humanity from itself, one was deemed a chaotic failure (Copenhagen in 2009), another a stunning success (Paris in 2015) and the rest landed somewhere in between.

News Headlines
#132274
2021-12-22

Understanding the Glasgow Climate Pact of COP 26

While COP 26 has come and gone, and the world leaders have since returned to their duty posts, the key question Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) and other civil society organisations that attended COP 26 are asking is if the Nigerian government and other governments of the world will be able to m ...

News Headlines
#132211
2021-12-17

France is preparing to host 74th meeting of the Standing Committee of CITES in Lyon, with the support of the Metropole, and ensuring safe sanitary conditions for the participants

The upcoming 74th meeting of the CITES Standing Committee will take place in the Metropolis of Lyon (France) and bring together members and observers to review strategic, policy and species-specific matters affecting the implementation of the Convention in preparation for the 19th meeting of the ...

News Headlines
#132190
2021-12-16

Draft Ministerial Statement Highlights Environmentally Sustainable Trade

A large group of members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) issued a draft ministerial statement on trade and sustainability on 15 December. The text is the result of the Trade and Environmental Sustainability Structured Discussions (TESSD), where 53 WTO members said they planned “to collabor ...

News Headlines
#132174
2021-12-15

Watch: India votes against UNSC draft resolution to 'securitise' climate action

India on Monday voted against a draft resolution of the United Nations Security Council that attempted to "securitise" climate action and undermine the hard-won consensual agreements in Glasgow.

News Headlines
#132166
2021-12-14

Nature protection must be a key part of our climate crisis response, says Fauna & Flora International

More than any other before it, COP26 was the ‘Nature COP’; the moment that the central place of nature protection within the climate debate was almost universally recognised.

News Headlines
#132173
2021-12-14

Russia vetoes UN security council resolution linking climate crisis to international peace

The resolution proposed that the climate crisis could potentially threaten ‘global peace, security and stability’.

News Headlines
#132156
2021-12-13

5 reasons why COP26 should finally mark a turning point for forests, food and climate

No longer the ‘forgotten solution’, nature appeared prominently in the final text of the Glasgow Climate Pact, the agreement reached at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference.

News Headlines
#132120
2021-12-09

Second Committee Approves Resolutions on Climate, SIDS, Biodiversity

The UN General Assembly’s committee on economic and financial issues (Second Committee) completed its work for the 76th session. The Committee, which had the first all-woman Bureau in the Committee’s history, reached agreement on guidance on biodiversity, convening conferences on SIDS and LLDCs ...

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#6092

International Civil Aviation Day

7 December 2021, Montreal, Canada

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World Soil Day

5 December 2021, Bonn, Germany

News Headlines
#131922
2021-11-24

UN expert to assess effect of climate change and environmental risks on human rights

The UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment, David R. Boyd, will visit Saint Vincent and the Grenadines from 25 November to 2 December. This is the first visit of the Special Rapporteur to a small island state in the Caribbean. It is also the first official visit since the Hum ...

News Headlines
#131885
2021-11-24

COP26: Key outcomes for food, forests, land use and nature in Glasgow

Coming into COP26 in Glasgow, nature was expected to feature heavily at the summit – one-fourth of UK prime minister Boris Johnson’s mantra of “coal, cars, cash and trees”. Food systems – despite the growing recognition of their role as both a source of and solution to climate change – were not ...

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World Cities Day

31 October 2021, New York, United States of America

News Headlines
#131115
2021-10-25

Xi pledges enhanced coordination with UN for balanced, inclusive global development

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday met with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres via video link, vowing to enhance coordination with the UN to work for a new stage of balanced, coordinated and inclusive global development.

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World Maritime Day

30 September 2021, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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World Tourism Day

27 September 2021, New York, United States of America

News Headlines
#130476
2021-09-20

Boris Johnson tells world leaders he is growing 'increasingly frustrated' at their efforts to tackle climate change

Speaking during a meeting at the United Nations in New York, the prime minister says the gap between what has been promised by industrialised nations and what they have so far delivered remains "vast".

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News Headlines
#130432
2021-09-15

Nigeria: Buhari to Address UN General Assembly Sept 24

President Muhammadu Buhari will address the 76rd Session of the high-level General Debate of the United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York on Tuesday, September 24, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) has reported.

News Headlines
#130433
2021-09-15

76th UNGA session opens, president calls on member states to embrace hope

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Tuesday opened its 76th session, with the UNGA president and the UN chief imploring member states to embrace hope and strengthen unity after a challenging year of climate disasters, conflict, and COVID-19.

News Headlines
#130434
2021-09-15

Wish I had magic wand to complete UNSC reform: President of 76th UNGA session Shahid

United Nations: President of the 76th session of the UN General Assembly Abdulla Shahid has said he wished he had a magic wand to complete the Security Council reform and expressed hope that the UN members will take this process seriously as he began his presidency of hope of the 193-nation body.

News Headlines
#130435
2021-09-15

Dendias to Visit New York for 76th UN General Assembly General Debate

ATHENS -- Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias will visit New York on Monday, September 20, for the High Level General Debate of the 76th UN General Assembly, foreign ministry spokesperson Alexandros Papaioannou announced on Wednesday.

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#6161

Seventy-sixth session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 76)

14 - 30 September 2021, New York, United States of America

News Headlines
#130372
2021-09-13

Environmental threats ‘greatest challenge to human rights’: UN

Environmental threats are worsening conflicts worldwide and will soon constitute the biggest challenge to human rights, the United Nations has warned.

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