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25-year-old Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate has been appointed as the newest UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, affirming her collaboration with the organisation and recognising her outstanding global advocacy for climate justice for current and future generations. UNIFEED

From peacekeeping, to the protection of refugees and providing life-saving humanitarian aid, the work of the United Nations remained vital in a year marked by multiple overlapping crises. UNIFEED

From peacekeeping, to the protection of refugees and providing life-saving humanitarian aid, the work of the United Nations remained vital in a year marked by multiple overlapping crises. UNIFEED / FILE

As talks kick off in the second week of COP26, the plight of those nations on the front line of the climate crisis came into focus on Adaptation, Loss and Damage Day. UNIFEED

British Chancellor Rishi Sunak at COP26 announced that nearly 500 financial services firms from across the world have agreed to align $130 trillion of their assets to the climate goals in the Paris Agreement - including limiting global warming to 1.5C. UNIFEED

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres met Tuesday with young climate activists Greta Thunberg (Sweden), Mitzi Jonelle Tan (Philippines) Vanessa Nakate (Uganda) Elizabeth Wathuti (Kenya) Eric Njuguna (Kenya) and Nicole Becker (Argentina) and briefed them on the current situation at COP26 as talks between delegations continue. UNIFEED

Young people living in the Central African Republic, Chad, Nigeria, Guinea, and Guinea-Bissau are the most at risk of the impacts of climate change, threatening their health, education, and protection, and exposing them to deadly diseases, according to a UNICEF report launched today. UNICEF

Climate activist Greta Thunberg will donate 100,000 Euros (120,000 USD) via her foundation, to the WHO Foundation, in support of COVAX to purchase COVID-19 vaccines, as part of the global effort to ensure equitable access of vaccines to the most at-risk in all countries, including health workers, older people and those with underlying conditions. WHO

Announcing the launch of Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ new Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change, his Special Adviser on Climate, Selwin Hart, said “young people understand, more than any other group, the threat that climate change poses to their present and their future.” UNIFEED

Marking the World Children’s Day, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador David Beckham said, “as leaders, as public figures, as parents and of course as human beings, we must all do more to protect children’s dreams, because the future doesn’t belong to us, it belongs to children.” UNIFEED