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Dirty fossil fuel investments and a new AI inventory of global emissions in the spotlight during ‘Finance Day’ at COP27 |

·November 10, 2022·8 min read

Over 50 activists of all ages and backgrounds took over the so-called ‘Blue Zone’ – the main area of the conference centre in Sharm el-Sheikh overseen by the UN – to chant “Stop funding fossil fuels! Stop funding death!” Susan Huang, representing the NGO Oil Change International, was among the...

Global jobs market set to deteriorate amid Ukraine war shocks: ILO |

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·November 1, 2022·2 min read

Estimates from ILO for the third quarter of 2022, indicate that the level of hours worked was 1.5 per cent below pre-pandemic levels, amounting to a deficit of 40 million full-time jobs. Inflation up, wages down The 10th edition of the Monitor on the World of Work confirms that rising inflation...

‘Act Local to Go Global’ provides universal theme for World Cities Day |

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·October 31, 2022·3 min read

In his message marking World Cities Day, the UN chief highlighted the critical role urban areas have in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs outline global action and targets across 17 critical areas including poverty reduction, gender equality and clean energy. “On World Cities Day, let us resolve...

Countries’ climate promises still not enough to avoid catastrophic global warming: UN Report |

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·October 27, 2022·3 min read

The current combined National Determined Contributions (NDCs)—meaning the countries’ national efforts to tackle emissions and mitigate climate change—are leading our planet to at least 2.5 degrees warming, a level deemed catastrophic by scientists at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Increasing instead of decreasing In 2019, the IPCC indicated...

Da’esh, affiliates remain ‘global and evolving’ threat, Security Council hears |

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·August 10, 2022·2 min read

“Da’esh and its affiliates continue to exploit conflict dynamics, governance fragilities and inequality to incite, plan and organize terrorist attacks,” said UN counter-terrorism chief Vladimir Voronkov, presenting the Secretary-General’s fifteenth report. They also exploit pandemic restrictions, misuse digital spaces to recruit sympathizers and have “significantly” increased the use of unmanned...

UNFPA global innovation awards: 10 projects that will change lives of women and girls |

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·August 8, 2022·2 min read

The challenge was financed by UNFPA’s Equalizer Accelerator Fund, and implemented in cooperation with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), and the International Trade Centre. Entrants were given the incentive of a cash prize which would allow them to expand their ideas from the test stage, to...

From Hiroshima, UN chief calls for global nuclear disarmament |

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·August 6, 2022·2 min read

“Nuclear weapons are nonsense. Three-quarters of a century later, we must ask what we’ve learned from the mushroom cloud that swelled above this city in 1945”, he urged during the solemn event at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park attended by dozens of people, including hibakusha, young peace activists, Japan’s Prime Minister...

Major fall in global food prices for July, but future supply worries remain |

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·August 5, 2022·2 min read

The UN agency has published its latest eagerly awaited Food Price Index, the barometer that tracks monthly changes in the international prices of five food commodities: cereals, vegetable oils, dairy products, meat, and sugar. The @FAO Food Price Index averaged 140.9 points in July, 🔻8.6% from June, marking the 4th...

Unprecedented global challenges are ‘not insurmountable’ – UN chief |

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·August 4, 2022·4 min read

“In addition to the triple planetary crisis of climate breakdown, air pollution and biodiversity loss, and the immense suffering caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, conflicts are raging across the world”, said Secretary-General António Guterres. The ripple effects of the war in Ukraine, are contributing to surging food and energy prices,...

UN chief slams ‘immoral’ profiteering amid global energy crisis |

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·August 4, 2022·3 min read

Secretary-General António Guterres said it was “immoral” that major oil and gas companies are reporting “record profits”, while prices soar. “The combined profits of the largest energy companies in the first quarter of this year are close to $100 billion,” he said, urging governments to “tax these excessive profits, and...

New global alliance launched to end AIDS in children by 2030 |

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·August 2, 2022·1 min read

The new Global Alliance for Ending AIDS in Children by 2030, made up of UN agencies, civil society groups, governments and international partners, was announced at the landmark International AIDS Conference, which comes to a close in Montréal, Canada, on Tuesday. ‘Healthy, informed generation’ Addressing the conference, Limpho Nteko from...

UN and partners meet to address ‘critical’ state of global food crisis |

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·July 19, 2022·2 min read

Factors including the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and ongoing conflicts resulted in nearly a billion people going hungry last year, he said. Meanwhile, the World Bank has warned that the conflict in Ukraine will plunge an additional 95 million people into extreme poverty, and 50 million into severe hunger, this...