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UN chief said, “Every day we wait leads us closer to a global breakdown – both physical and political. But while the problems before us are unprecedented, they are not insurmountable.” UNIFEED

Secretary-General António Guterres said that “humanity is just one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation. We need the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons as much as ever.” UNIFEED

With 161 votes in favour, and eight abstentions, the UN General Assembly adopted a historic resolution on Thursday, declaring access to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, a universal human right. UNIFEED

The outlook for global growth has grown “gloomy and more uncertain,” the IMF’s chief economist Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas warned in Washington, DC. IMF

The IMF announced on Tuesday that a 3.2 precent revised downward forecast to global growth in 2022 and 2.9 percent in 2023. IMF

In his video remarks, UN Secretary-General Guterres reiterated, “this has to be the decade of decisive climate action. That means trust, multilateralism and collaboration. We have a choice. Collective action or collective suicide. It is in our hands.” UNIFEED

Secretary-General António Guterres said, “our world is in deep trouble – and so too are the Sustainable Development Goals.” UNIFEED

The United Nations and the European Commission holds their first High-Level Dialogue today at Greentree Foundation, just outside of New York City. The two-day High-Level Dialogue is co-chaired by the Secretary-General and the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. UNIFEED

Countries already under pressure from the economic fall-out of the COVID-19 pandemic risk seeing the same economic turmoil and human misery as Sri Lanka as the war in Ukraine drags on, unless the international community agrees to radical financial measures to help countries saddled with debt, the UN said on Thursday. UNTV CH

The five-day UN Ocean Conference ended today with more than 150 countries collectively agreeing to scale up science-based and innovative actions to address the ocean emergency. UNIFEED