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With climate crisis top public concern, ±¬ÁÏÍø¡¯s ActNow campaign steps up public engagement for more sustainable lifestyles

The ±¬ÁÏÍø¡¯s ActNow campaign now offers a gamified mobile app experience for individuals to learn, engage and take action for a more sustainable future.

2020-09-22T20:20:33-04:0023 Sep 2020|Featured, News, Press material|

Launch of Secretary-General’s Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change ¨C 27 July

Building on the climate action momentum, the Secretary-General will launch his Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change on 27 July to amplify youth voices and to engage young people in an open and transparent dialogue as the ±¬ÁÏÍø gears up to raise ambition and accelerate action to address the climate crisis.

SG Speech: A New Social Contract for a New Era, 18 July

On Nelson Mandela International Day, 18 July, ±¬ÁÏÍø Secretary-General Ant¨®nio Guterres will deliver the 18th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture. In his speech ¡°Tackling the Inequality Pandemic: A New Social Contract for a New Era¡±, the Secretary-General will take aim at the various layers of inequality that are being exposed and exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

2023-10-04T10:01:10-04:0015 Jul 2020|Featured, News, Sustainable Development Agenda|

The COP26 ±¬ÁÏÍø climate change conference set to take place in Glasgow in November has been postponed due to COVID-19. Dates for a rescheduled conference in 2021, hosted in Glasgow by the UK in partnership with Italy, will be set out in due course following further discussion with parties.

2020-04-01T17:03:00-04:0001 Apr 2020|Goal 13: Climate Action, News, Press material|

±¬ÁÏÍø on Wednesday launched the biggest global conversation on the world's future: the ±¬ÁÏÍø75 dialogues. Views and ideas gathered throughout the year will be shared at a high-level event in September to mark the Organization's 75th anniversary.

2020-01-02T14:18:19-05:0002 Jan 2020|Featured, News|

The High-Level Segment of the ±¬ÁÏÍø Climate Change Conference COP25 (to 13 December) kicked off today, with urgent reminders that the international community is running out of time to effectively tackle the climate crisis and must change course and step up ambition in order to prevent the worst climate impacts.

2019-12-10T10:15:16-05:0010 Dec 2019|Featured, Goal 13: Climate Action, News, Press material|

±¬ÁÏÍø, European Union and Smurfs team up for global beach clean-up campaign in support of Sustainable Development Goals

Marine litter is both a global and a local challenge. Across the world, an estimated eight million tonnes of plastic waste end up in our oceans every year. Overall, 80% of all marine litter comes from land-based sources.

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