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Announcing the launch of Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ new Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change, his Special Adviser on Climate, Selwin Hart, said “young people understand, more than any other group, the threat that climate change poses to their present and their future.” UNIFEED

Marking the World Children’s Day, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador David Beckham said, “as leaders, as public figures, as parents and of course as human beings, we must all do more to protect children’s dreams, because the future doesn’t belong to us, it belongs to children.” UNIFEED

There have been historic gains overall for the world’s children since the Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted 30 years ago. However, many of the poorest children are yet to feel the impact, according to The Convention on the Rights of the Child at a Crossroads, a new report released today. UNICEF

Nature striking back with fury, Secretary-General tells Climate Action Summit, calling ‘apocalyptic’ Bahamas destruction ‘the future — if we do not act now’.

Sixteen child petitioners – including Greta Thunberg and Alexandria Villaseñor – from 12 countries around the world today presented a landmark official complaint to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child to protest lack of government action on the climate crisis. UNICEF

At the opening of the UN Climate Action Summit, UN chief Antonio Guterres said he would not be a “silent witness to the crime of dooming our present and destroying” the right of future generations to a sustainable future adding that leader have an obligation “to do everything to stop the climate crisis before it stops us.” UNIFEED

Opening Session and full morning debates of the United Nations Youth Climate Summit at the UN Headquarters in New York.

The United Nations held its first-ever Youth Climate Summit with the participation of some 1,000 young people from over 100 countries. UNIFEED

Thousands of people marched for climate justice in New York City, ahead of next week’s United Nations' climate summit. UNICEF

Briefing by Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.