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A new report from the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) finds more lives are being protected from dangerous climate change but there is a long way to go. Half of countries globally are still not protected by multi-hazard early warning systems. UNDRR

The Secretary-General said the new UN Environment Programme report shows that “the emissions gap is more like an emissions canyon.” UNIFEED

The third session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment (INC-3), opened today in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. UNEP

“Reducing food loss and waste represents a triple win opportunity with immediate positive impact on food security, climate benefits, and increased availability of nutritious food while improving the overall sustainability of agrifood systems,” QU Dongyu, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) said. FAO

Actor and advocate Dia Mirza said that with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at halftime, “there is still a significant absence of political will, and without political will, we can't get ahead, and we cannot do all that we need done as fast as it's needed to be done.” UNIFEED

Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed said the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), “the one framework that no one argues but everyone can see themselves in,” are “good for people, good for the planet that we live on.” UNIFEED

Plastic pollution could reduce by 80 percent by 2040 if countries and companies make deep policy and market shifts using existing technologies, according to a new report by UN Environment Programme (UNEP). UNIFEED / FILE

General Assembly President Csaba Kőrösi said it was time “to get serious about debt relief in Middle-income countries, which host the majority of the extreme poor in the world,’ and called for the international community “to go beyond GDP as the primary measure of development.” UNIFEED

UN Secretary-General António Guterres said, “Khartoum is in turmoil; Darfur is burning once again,” reiterating that the fighting in Sudan “needs to stop — and to stop now.” UNEP / UNIC NAIROBI

Petteri Taalas, Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization, said that negative trends in weather patterns may continue until the 2060s “independently of our success in climate mitigation.” UNTV CH