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For Pacific Small Island Developing States, the international community's failure to provide US$100bn per year for climate change has grave consequences.

Senior official of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Bo Li is calling for greater action to mitigate the impact of climate change

With 147 million children around the world missing half of their in-person instruction over the last two years and around 24 million never returning to school, humanity is experiencing a deep learning

Barbados may not be on track to achieving all of the United Nations 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) by 2030 but the country is  partnering with its CARICOM neighbours to improve the region’s food security and ensure its citizens have access to nutritious food.This assurance was delivered by Minister of Agriculture Indar Weir in his address to a 2022 United Nations Science Summit General Assembly activity held via Zoom on  Monday.Weir spoke about CARICOM’s commitment to reducing the...

Samoa's prime minister Fiame Naomi Mata'afa says climate change remains her country's number one priority.

New York:The State of Qatar participated in the annual ministerial meeting of the Least Developed Countries, on the sidelines of the 77th session of t...

World leaders have been told that they need to take the vulnerabilities of Small Island Development States seriously. Those sentiments were echoed by Antigua and Barbuda’s Minister of the Environment, Sir Molwyn Joseph, when he addressed the 2nd Climate and Development Ministerial meeting yesterday at the United Nations General Assembly…

United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres has held discussions with two Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders, including the

Report focuses on greenhouse gases, global temperatures, climate predictions and tipping points, urban climate change, extreme weather impacts and early warnings.  Geneva, 13 September 2022 - Climate science is clear: we are heading in the wrong direction, according to a new multi-agency report coordinated by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), which highlights the huge gap between aspirations and reality. Without much more ambitious action, the physical and socioeconomic impacts of cl...

I am pleased to welcome you to the Second Regular Session of the UN Women Executive Board 2022. Our agenda in this session covers key areas of our work.  We will look at our financing.  We will continue the discussion we began in the Annual Session about the state of our oversight mechanisms, and how they might be strengthened.  We will also hear about UN Women’s work in sub-Saharan Africa as our regular operational update.