Copenhagen, 14 January 2020 As temperatures rise and climate change impacts intensify, nations must urgently step up action to adapt to the new climate reality or face serious costs, damages and losses, the 2020 UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Adaptation Gap Report finds. The report shows that while nations have advanced in planning, huge gaps remain [...]
Copenhagen, 14 January 2021 Statement by Dr Hans Henri P. Kluge, WHO Regional Director for Europe - Russian Press Briefing "Good morning, First and foremost, I wish you a happy and healthy new year for 2021. We were prepared for a challenging start to 2021 and it has been just that. One year from [...]
Copenhagen, 13 January 2020 UNICEF invites contributions to support its ACT-A Supplies Financing Facility (“ACT-A SFF”), a newly launched pooled fund that will enable us to mount the largest health and logistics operation ever seen. ACT-A (Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator) is a global collaboration to accelerate the development, production, and equitable access to COVID-19 [...]
Copenhagen, 12 January 2021 Effective from 1 April 2021, DTU Management has appointed Susanne Pedersen as new director for UNEP DTU Partnership. Susanne comes from a position as Assistant Director-General at the Global Green Growth Institute in Seoul. Mette Wier, Head of Department at DTU Management, is looking forward to welcoming the new director. [...]
Europe, 12 January 2021 UNHCR’s recommendations to the EU Presidencies in 2021 As a new year begins, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is calling on Portugal and Slovenia to harness their 2021 European Union (EU) Presidencies and negotiations on the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum and show leadership to better protect refugees in [...]
Copenhagen, 11 January 2020 The head of UNICEF Supply Division, Etleva “Eva” Kadilli, talks about the challenges and opportunities in the equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines. How long have you been working at UNICEF and how are you involved in the roll-out of the COVID-19 vaccines? This month I am completing 25 years serving the [...]
Copenhagen, 7 January 2021 Statement by Dr Hans Henri P. Kluge, WHO Regional Director for Europe: Good morning, First and foremost, I wish you a happy and healthy new year for 2021. We were prepared for a challenging start to 2021 and it has been just that. One year on from WHO’s first news [...]
New York, 4 January 2021 In 1945, world leaders gathered in San Francisco to sign the Charter of the United Nations, which gave birth to an organization that represented new hope for a world emerging from the horrors of the Second World War. Our founders were in no doubt about the kind of world [...]
Copenhagen, 16 December 2020 Winter holidays are a time for family, community and renewal. This year more than ever, across the WHO European Region, people are anxious to gather together and reflect on what has been both an extraordinary and difficult 2020. Annually across Europe, we see a massive increase in gatherings that bring together [...]
New York, 21 December 2020 As the designated COVAX procurement coordinator and procurement agent, UNICEF has launched the COVID-19 Vaccine Market Dashboard – an interactive tool for countries, partners and industry to follow the developments of the rapidly evolving COVID-19 vaccine market and the efforts of the COVAX Facility to ensure fair and equitable access for every country in the [...]
