"SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY"

Economic and Social Council grants 209 non-governmental organizations consultative status, adopts seven resolutions, six decisions, as management segment resumes.

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.

Economic and Social Council nominates experts, fills multiple vacancies for 16 subsidiary bodies.

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

The Sea Women of Melanesia was granted the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Champion of the Earth award in the Inspiration and Action category. UNEP

Filling vacancies in five subsidiary bodies, Economic and Social Council also approves nominations for two others, elects Vice-President of 2022 session.

Adopting 55 First Committee texts, General Assembly addresses myriad security threats, urging joint action to advance stalled denuclearization, disarmament efforts.

Innovative ways needed to overcome growing divergence in non-proliferation regime, speakers say, as General Assembly considers Atomic Energy Agency’s annual report.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said his country is working on becoming “the world’s largest green hydrogen hub” and told world leaders, “We are answerable to our future generations when they ask, when it was time to take decisions, what were those people doing, those people whose responsibility it was to give direction to the world?” UNIFEED