"DEFORESTATION"

Ahead of the annual UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) on 31 October, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned that the world is ‘way off-track’ in containing global temperature rise with the concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2), the most important greenhouse gas, reaching 413.2 parts per million in 2020. This is 149 per cent of the pre-industrial level. UNTV CH

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro told the General Assembly’s General Debate that Brazil was “at the brink of socialism,” but now “has a President who believes in God, respects its constitution, values family and is loyal to its people.” UNIFEED

Ahead of a “Leaders Roundtable on Climate Action” United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that if “this is to be a success,” developed nations must “find 100 billion dollars.” UNIFEED

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO), inaugurated a new WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence, based in Berlin. WHO

Thousands of hectares of restored Mangroves are changing the lives of local fishing communities in Senegal by helping them tackle and adapt to the climate change. IFAD

Indigenous Peoples are the guardians of 80 percent of the Earth’s biodiversity, nevertheless their protective role is increasingly at risk due to climate change and the expansion of various industrial and commercial activities. FAO / FILE

Nearly five years into Colombia’s historic peace agreement, unprecedented strides in justice marked alongside lingering violence, experts tell Security Council.

The triple threat of climate change, loss of nature and pollution requires the world to deliver on its commitment to restore at least one billion degraded hectares of land in the next decade - an area about the size of China states in a new report launched today by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). UNTV CH

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has designated European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet as Goodwill Ambassador on the International Day of Human Space Flight. FAO

In the west African country of Burkina Faso, the displaced struggle to find a refuge from violence and the effects of climate change. After leaving their homes, where drought has become endemic, thousands of people then faced violent floods that wiped away their shelters. UNHCR