Meetings Coverage and Press Releases

Environmental issues and sustainable development

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With Marine Pollution at ‘Alarming’ Levels, Speakers at Ocean Conference Dialogue Demand Urgent Action to Clean World’s Seas, Call for Political Will

LISBON, 27 June — Exploring solutions to address marine pollution — from toxic chemical dumping and wastewater runoff to sewage emitted from ageing extractive industries — speakers called for urgent action to be taken even before the adoption of a global legally binding treaty to regulate plastic use, as the international conference on ocean conservation continued into an afternoon interactive dialogue.

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Keep Goal of 1.5°C Alive by Closing Climate Finance, Mitigation Gaps with Urgent, Robust Action, Deputy Secretary-General Tells Commonwealth Leaders

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s closing remarks, as prepared for delivery, to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting’s Climate Change Side Event “Keeping 1.5 Alive — the Glasgow Climate Pact and Building Momentum towards the twenty-seventh Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change”, in Kigali today:

Daily Press Briefing by the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General

In Sri Lanka, the World Food Programme (WFP) is launching its emergency response in the country amid the escalating food crisis.  WFP is working to provide life-saving food, cash and voucher assistance to 3 million of the most vulnerable people who can no longer meet their food needs due to the economic crisis there.