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Addressing the UN General Assembly, Bahamian Prime Minister Hubert Minnis asked delegates, “When one storm can obliterate an island-state or a number of states in one hurricane season: how will we survive, how can we develop, how can we continue to exist?” UNIFEED

Actor Jason Momoa joined United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres and leaders from small island developing States at a special event to urge action to address the devastating impact of climate change on these vulnerable countries. UNIFEED / FILE

Declining aid, rising debt thwarting world’s ability to fund sustainable development, speakers warn at General Assembly High-Level Dialogue on Financing for Development.

Declining aid, rising debt thwarting world’s ability to fund sustainable development, speakers warn at General Assembly High-Level Dialogue on Financing for Development.

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

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

As the Climate Action Summit begins at United Nations headquarters in New York on Monday, UN weather experts in Geneva warned about the “glaring - and growing – gap” between agreed targets to tackle global warming and the actual reality. UNTV CH

General Assembly adopts work programme, agenda for Seventy-Fourth session, retaining items on responsibility to protect, situation in Ukraine at 2nd plenary meeting.

The current worldwide sustainable development model is threatening to reverse years of progress, if strategies don’t drastically change, an independent group of scientists has concluded in a major new report released today. UNIFEED

General Assembly adopts texts on strengthening environmental protection, cooperation with Shanghai Cooperation Organisation at 103rd plenary meeting.