"GREEN ECONOMY"

Concluding 2022 management segment, Economic and Social Council focuses on role in attaining inclusive recovery guided by sustainable development agenda.

Briefing by Paulina Kubiak, Spokesperson for the President of the 76th Session of the General Assembly.

UN meets to help reverse 'precipitous drop' in tourism.

UN meets to help reverse ‘precipitous drop’ in tourism.

The vulnerabilities of Least Developed Countries (LDCs) may be different today than they were 50 years ago – when the UN created the category – but left unaddressed, the results are the same: inequality, hunger, poverty, weak infrastructure, competition for dwindling resources, insecurity and conflict, UN Secretary-General António Guterres tells the Fifth LDC (LDC5) Conference.

The General Assembly resumes its informal thematic consultation on the Secretary-General’s "Our Common Agenda" report.

Ministers of environment and other representatives from over 170 nations convened today (28 Feb) in Nairobi to launch the fifth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-5). UNEP

United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Headquarters in Nairobi and announced the US will join talks on a new global treaty to curb plastic pollution. UNEP

Briefing by Monica Grayley, Spokesperson for the President of the 76th Session of the General Assembly.

New and updated commitments made ahead of the pivotal climate conference COP26 in the past months are a positive step forward, but the world remains on track for a dangerous global temperature rise of at least 2.7°C this century even if fully met, a new report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has warned. UNIFEED