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UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Wednesday he was deeply concerned about the risk of hunger becoming widespread because of the impact of the war in Ukraine on global food security. UNIS VIENNA

Briefing by Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Make bold environmental action central focus of post pandemic economic recovery, speakers urge as General Assembly holds first ever global biodiversity summit.

The SDG Moment, convened by Secretary-General António Guterres, brings together representatives of Governments, civil society, local authorities, international organizations and the private sector with a view to generating a renewed sense of urgency, ambition, accountability and transformative possibility as the world embarks on a Decade of Action to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals.

Afternoon Session of the United Nations Youth Climate Summit at the UN Headquarters in New York.

At the “R20” climate summit in Austria’s capital Vienna, António Guterres, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Greta Thunberg and Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen today called on global leaders to ramp up action on climate change. UNIS VIENNA /FILE

Visiting the Austrian capital to mark the 40th anniversary of the United Nations headquarters in Vienna, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said the “primacy of reason” and other values of the Enlightenment were “more important than ever for Europe and for the United Nations.” UNIS VIENNA

Speaking to a General Assembly High-Level meeting on climate change and sustainable development, Secretary-General António Guterres said extreme climate events such as the recent Cyclone Idai in Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe “are becoming more frequent, more severe and more widespread and will become even worse unless we act urgently, now.” UNIFEED

Nelson Mandela Peace Summit Unanimously Adopts Declaration, Resolving to ‘Move Beyond Words’, Redouble Efforts towards Peaceful, Prosperous, Fair World at the General Assembly Seventy-third session, 5th plenary meeting to be known as the Nelson Mandela Peace Summit.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres called on leaders to act with common purpose in order to limit the “existential threat” of global warming, as he delivered his keynote address to the climate summit convened in Austria’s capital Vienna by former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. UNIS VIENNA / UNIDO / ORF HANDOUT