Without biodiversity we wouldn’t have the food we eat today! But it’s disappearing before our eyes.
The air we breathe, the water we drink and the food we eat all rely on biodiversity.
UN Data Forum explores ways to improve, modernize national statistical systems
It's essential to strengthen national statistical capacities in countries where financial and human resources for statistics are lacking, USG Wu Hongbo said.
INTERVIEW: “We have to make decisions together, and we have to make them now” – Mogens Lyyketoft
In a recent interview with the UN News Centre, Mr. Lykketoft discusses the need for Member States to overcome differences and unite in an urgent push to curb extreme poverty and reverse climate change, as they launch the new Sustainable Development Agenda in New York this month and seek to adopt a new universal climate change agreement in Paris in December.
UN health agency to mark World Hepatitis Day with pilot initiative to curb unsafe injections
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced today that it will commemorate the fifth World Hepatitis Day next week with a global injection safety initiative campaign in three pilot countries together with the foundation arm of IKEA to combat the “silent epidemic” that kills more than 1.4 million each year.
Africa Renewal: Spotlight on…Loans to Women
With the Third International Financing for Development Conference taking place in Addis Adaba, Ethiopia, next week, we are highlighting a series of articles from the Africa Renewal magazine that examine some of the challenges faced by people in Africa every day.
Three years into the Zero Hunger Challenge, it’s time to accelerate action and commitment to end hunger in our lifetimes
Three years after UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon launched his Zero Hunger Challenge, governments, groups and people around the world have built a global movement to end hunger – end it in our lifetimes, and end it once and for all.
UN’s FAO and IKEA join forces for sustainable forest management
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has teamed up with big-box retailer IKEA to launch a new initiative aimed at promoting the sustainable management of forest plantations and empowering forest-reliant communities in Viet Nam.