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António Guterres was on Friday re-appointed to a second term as UN Secretary-General, pledging as his priority, to continue helping the world chart a course out of the COVID-19 pandemic. UNIFEED

Drought is on the verge of becoming the next pandemic, the UN’s top official for disaster reduction said on Thursday, in a call for concerted action and new transboundary alliances to tackle the growing global threat. UNTV CH

As he prepares to leave office on Friday, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock said, “the last four years have been an unusually difficult time,” marked by protracted and emerging conflicts, the rising impacts of climate change, and the toll of diseases such as Ebola and now COVID-19, bringing the number of people requiring assistance and protection to unprecedented levels. UNIFEED

“We need to recognize that we are at war with a virus,” the UN chief said on the sidelines of the G7 meeting in UK, calling on "those who hold the power to come together and to organize an effective response to the COVID.” COURTESY OF UK GOVERNMENT

UN Global Compact Executive Director Sanda Ojiambo said, among all the leading G7 stock indexes, “none are aligned” with the Paris climate goals and stressed that science-based targets “are the near-term breakthrough mitigation measure” that the corporate sector needs to reach those goals. UNIFEED

Confirmation that Europeans have just experienced their chilliest Spring in years is cold comfort for the planet, amid rising greenhouse gas levels which will bring negative impacts for generations to come, UN weather experts said today. UNTV CH

“The 76th session of the General Assembly will grapple with the impact of the pandemic across the three pillars of our work: peace, sustainable development, and human rights," UN chief Antonio Guterres said following the election of Abdulla Shahid from Maldives as the 76th president of the General Assembly. UNIFEED

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

In the highlands of Ethiopia, fifty young men are working hard to reverse the effects of climate change. They are rebuilding and protecting gullies. IFAD

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