UN Secretary-General António Guterres Addresses the 2024 UN General Assembly: A Call for Global Reform and Action Date: September 25, 2024 In a powerful address to the 2024 United Nations General Assembly, Secretary-General António Guterres issued a stark warning about the state of the world and a fervent call for comprehensive reforms in global governance.... Continue Reading →
"We are not living here by choice. Everything we own is underwater," says a rescued villager near Mehar, the latest city to be flooded in Pakistan due to record rainfall and the overflowing Indus River. Navy volunteers have raced out on lifeboats to deliver aid and ferry people in need of medical care back to... Continue Reading →
‘This is climate carnage’: UN chief visits Pakistan’s flood-ravaged provinces
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has called for oil and gas companies to face special taxes. His comments came as surging energy prices sparked by the war in Ukraine push industry profits to new highs. Mr Guterres said it was "immoral" for firms to be profiting from the crisis. Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February... Continue Reading →
United Nations Secretary General slams ‘grotesque greed’ of oil and gas companies – BBC News
Humanity faces ‘collective suicide’ over climate crisis, warns UN chief
António Guterres issued a dire warning that the global warming limit of 1.5C agreed in the 2015 Paris climate accord was slipping further out of reach as more people around the world are hit by extreme floods, droughts, storms and wildfires. Video Source
I have seen many scientific reports in my time, but nothing like this…
In case you missed it, (with full text too) ... Summary: Remarks by António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, to the press conference launch of IPCC report. Description: I have seen many scientific reports in my time, but nothing like this. Today's IPCC report is an atlas of human suffering and a damning... Continue Reading →
(Personal Comment: this summit has already taken place, however the ideas and food system security should be part of COP26 and if it isn't it should be...) The UN Food Systems Summit will serve as a historic opportunity to empower all people to leverage the power of food systems to drive our recovery from the... Continue Reading →
Road to 2030 | Transforming food systems to achieve the SDGs
UN Secretary-General warned leaders not to come to his landmark Climate Action Summit with beautiful speeches, but to present concrete plans for cutting harmful greenhouse gas emissions, and strategies for carbon neutrality by 2050. So what, exactly, was promised at Monday’s all-day event at UN Headquarters in New York? Full Article - UN News