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In a virtual address to the Davos World Economic Forum, the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that humanity has just endured a year of tragedy and crisis that we never want to repeat. However, the Secretary-General added, “the tests to our societies are continuing.” UNIFEED

COVID-19 has disrupted all forms of human mobility through the closing of national borders and halting of travel worldwide. Preliminary estimates suggest that the pandemic may have slowed the growth in the stock of international migrants by around two million by mid- 2020, 27 per cent less than the growth expected since mid-2019, according to a report by the United Nations released today. UNIFEED

Secretary-General António Guterres said fragility and conflict “are among the greatest obstacles to implementation of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda,” and even before the COVID-19 pandemic, “the conflict landscape was deteriorating.” UNIFEED

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said “this virus has exposed our societies, exposed us, exposed the problems that we have. The level of inequity, the level of poverty, the level of exclusion,” adding that “health alone will not be a solution. We have to address the root cause of the problem too: the inequity in our society.” WHO

In his opening remarks to the Climate Ambition Summit, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on all leaders worldwide to declare a “State of Climate Emergency” in their countries until carbon neutrality is reached, adding “Can anybody still deny that we are facing a dramatic emergency?” UNIFEED

A top United Nations climate official welcomed the incoming United States Administration’s commitments “to re-join the Paris Agreement as well as a commitment to net zero by 2050.” UNIFEED

“The state of the planet is broken,” said the UN Secretary-General António Guterres, in a speech delivered on Wednesday at Columbia University in New York. Guterres described the fight against the climate crisis as the top priority for the 21st Century. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

In a new report, UNAIDS called on countries to “make far greater investments in global pandemic responses and adopt a new set of bold, ambitious but achievable HIV targets. If those targets are met, the world will be back on track to ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030.” UNIFEED

Improved water management, supported by effective governance and strong institutions - including secure water tenure and rights, underpinned by sound water accounting and auditing - will be essential to ensure global food security and nutrition, and contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), according to The State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) 2020. FAO

Ahead of the 2020 G20 Riyadh summit, Secretary-General António Guterres issued an "SOS for the needs of developing countries,” for COVID-19 recovery, as they face “the precipice of financial ruin and escalating poverty, hunger and untold suffering.” UNIFEED