The Secretary-General remains confident that cities, States and businesses within the US will continue to demonstrate vision and leadership by working for the low-carbon, resilient economic growth that will create quality jobs.
Highlighting the seriousness of the impact of climate change on the planet and its inhabitants, United Nations Secretary-General Ant車nio Guterres today called for sustained action to meet the global challenge and to ensure a peaceful and sustainable future for all.
THE SECRETARY-GENERAL -- ※CLIMATE ACTION: MOBILIZING THE WORLD§ New York, [...]
United Nations Secretary-General Ant車nio Guterres will issue a call to [...]
For the third year in a row, the Lebanese NGO Social Way Association has organized a bicycle ride, Bike Tripoli 4, in cooperation with the UN Information Centre (UNIC) in Beirut, Bike Lebanon, Beirut by Bike, and the northern coastal cities of Tripoli and Al-Mina municipalities. The theme for the sporting event was ※Empowering women in decision making positions.§
With relatively little data available about the Earth＊s Polar Regions 每 posing risks for people and the environment 每 the United Nations weather agency has kicked off of a two-year international effort to close gaps in polar forecasting capacity and to improve future environmental safety at the farthest reaches of the planet.
United Nations Secretary-General Ant車nio Guterres has appointed Ovais Sarmad of India as Deputy Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), at the Assistant Secretary-General level. The appointment has been made after consultation with the Conference of Parties through its Bureau. Mr. Sarmad will succeed Richard Kinley of Canada, to whom the Secretary-General and the Executive Secretary are grateful for his dedicated service to United Nations climate change efforts over the past 20 years.
※Climate action is unstoppable because it makes business sense§, said the UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed during the opening session of the SD Talks Special Series on Climate Action on 3 May 2017. It was the first in a series of seven webinars on climate action. The webinars in this series aim to advance knowledge and further dialogue around Climate Action, in the lead up to and beyond COP 23, that will take place in November in Germany.
The current pace of progress on three global energy goals 每 access to electricity, renewable energy and efficiency 每 is not moving fast enough to meet 2030 targets, according to the latest Global Tracking Framework (GTF) report released today by the World Bank and the International Energy Agency as part of the Sustainable Energy for All Knowledge Hub.
The United Nations this evening dimmed the lights at its iconic Headquarters complex in New York and other facilities around the world in observance of the tenth annual 'Earth Hour,' global event to put the spotlight on the issues facing the planet and to inspire millions across the world to live more sustainably.
The head of a major UN panel on climate change underlined that human influence on the climate system cannot be disputed.
"If we want to model the climate system we have to understand clouds. And if we want to predict the availability of water resources, we have to understand clouds,§ said WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas.
※We are dealing with scientific facts, not politics. And the facts are clear. Climate change is a direct threat in itself, and a multiplier of many other threats,§ UN Secretary-General Ant車nio Guterres told a General Assembly High-Level action event.
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The Secretary-General said he was particularly interested in the ※alignment of the core business of the private sector with the strategic goals of the international community.§
