© UNICEF/UN0548109/Jan Grarup | A young girl walks in the flooded village of Ulang in South Sudan.
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Women and adolescent girls as key actors in climate action! How do we ensure that women and adolescent girls get the opportunity to use their insights and experiences from the local context to take a lead in climate action? How do we ensure that women are placed solidly at the centre of climate action? How …
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UN Secretary-General António Guterres has arrived in New Delhi for the annual G20 summit with a “simple but urgent appeal” for world leaders in attendance: come together to solve humanity’s biggest challenges.
As wildfires raged across Southern Europe and North Africa, top UN climate scientists said on Thursday that it was “virtually certain” that July 2023 will be the warmest on record.
UN Photo/Mark Garten UN Secretary-General António Guterres takes a pilot ship through the Marmara sea in Turkey to view the Brave Commander.
Without urgent investment in climate mitigation and adaptation, countries in the Sahel risk decades of armed conflict and displacement exacerbated by rising temperatures, resource scarcity and food insecurity, the UN Special Coordinator for Development in the Sahel and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, warned today.
At the opening of the two-day Climate Implementation Summit at COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, António Guterres called for a historic pact between developed and developing countries to combine capacities, and pivot the world towards reducing carbon emissions, transforming energy systems and avoiding a climate catastrophe.
1. Electric vehicles are on the rise 2. The cost is going down for low-emission technologies 3. Mitigation Laws are expanding 4. It’s still possible to change industrial emissions 5. Cities present a big opportunity for climate action 6. Economic measures are being deployed 7. People care, and they’re engaged 8. CO2 removal is now …
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