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Informal comments to the media by António Guterres, Secretary-General, following his appointment of the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

Effective and binding action is urgently required to protect the millions of children, adolescents and expectant mothers worldwide whose health is jeopardized by the informal processing of discarded electrical or electronic devices according to a new report from the World Health Organization named "Children and Digital Dumpsites." UNIFEED

The General Assembly holds a high-level dialogue to assess the progress made in the fight against desertification, land degradation and drought, and map the way forward in view of the end of the UN Decade for Deserts and the Fight against Desertification.

Secretary-General António Guterres announced the launching of the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, a “global movement” that “will bring together governments, businesses, civil society, and private citizens in an unprecedented effort to heal the Earth.” UNIFEED

United Nations officials call for access to decaying FSO ‘safer’ off Yemen’s coast, warn Security Council of potential environmental, humanitarian crisis.

Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Inger Andersen told the Security Council that a spill or an explosion of the SAFER oil tanker off the coast of Yemen would “directly affect millions of people in a country that is already enduring the world's largest humanitarian emergency.” UNIFEED

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 statement issued by the Sana’a’s SAFER committee “would seem to confirm that Ansar Allah is not ready to provide the assurances we need to deploy a UN mission to the SAFER tanker,” the UN Spokesperson said on Wednesday. UNIFEED

The President of the General Assembly convenes a high-level thematic debate on the ocean and Sustainable Development Goal 14: Life Below Water, with the support of the Governments of Portugal and Kenya – co-hosts of the 2nd United Nations Ocean Conference, as well as H.E. Mr. Peter Thomson, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Ocean, to generate momentum towards the Conference in Lisbon, when public health safety measures allow.

The President of the General Assembly convenes a high-level thematic debate on the ocean and Sustainable Development Goal 14: Life Below Water, with the support of the Governments of Portugal and Kenya – co-hosts of the 2nd United Nations Ocean Conference, as well as H.E. Mr. Peter Thomson, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Ocean, to generate momentum towards the Conference in Lisbon, when public health safety measures allow.