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A top UN official said that in Ukraine, “intensifying Russian attacks on the country’s energy facilities, amidst heavy snow and freezing temperatures, are worsening the dire humanitarian conditions across the country.” UNIFEED

In a historic declaration at COP26, global leaders including Xi Jinping, Joe Biden and Jair Bolsonaro signed the Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forest and Land Use, committing countries to halt and reverse global deforestation over the next decade as part of a multibillion-dollar package to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. UNIFEED

At the opening of the COP26 Summit in Glasgow, UN chief Antonio Guterres called for greater ambition on mitigation and immediate concrete action to reduce global emissions by 45 per cent by 2030. He told world leaders, “Enough treating nature like a toilet,” adding, “We are digging our own graves.” UNIFEED

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson highlighted the urgency to combat climate change, he said, “It is time for humanity to grow up. It is time for us to listen to the warning of the scientists.” UNIFEED

UN Secretary-General António Guterres said, based on the present commitments by countries, “the world is on a catastrophic pathway to 2.7-degrees of heating” adding that “unless we collectively change course, there is a high risk of failure of COP26.” UNIFEED

Following a “Leaders Roundtable on Climate Action,” United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that the upcoming 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP26, will be “a turning point for the world.” UNIFEED

Ahead of a “Leaders Roundtable on Climate Action” United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that if “this is to be a success,” developed nations must “find 100 billion dollars.” UNIFEED

The international community should work together “towards a new international treaty for pandemic preparedness and response” to build a more robust global health architecture that will protect future generations, world leaders said in a commentary published today in several newspapers around the world. WHO

World-renowned natural historian Sir David Attenborough told the Security Council the world is “perilously close to tipping points that once past will send global temperatures spiralling catastrophically higher,” and said, “If we continue on our current path, we will face the collapse of everything that gives us our security." UNIFEED

In a video message to the General Assembly’s General Debate, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson pledged a 30 percent increase in funding the World Health Organization. He said, “the UK supports the efforts of the World Health Organization and of my friend, Tedros, to explore the aetiology of the disease, because however great the need for reform, the WHO, the World Health Organization, is still the one body that marshals humanity against the legions of disease.” UNIFEED