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SEVILLA / FFD4 ADVANCER
The Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4), to take place in Sevilla, Spain, will bring together world leaders to advance solutions to financing challenges threatening the achievement of sustainable development. UNIFEED / FILE
Audio Languages: English, Spanish
27 June 2025
UNEP / WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY
This year’s World Environment Day focuses on solutions to plastic pollution, spotlighting upstream actions like rethinking product design, promoting reuse systems, and embracing circularity. UNEP
Audio Languages: English, Korean
5 June 2025
UNEP / REPUBLIC OF KOREA PLASTIC SOLUTIONS
World Environment Day will be marked on 5 June 2025, with the Republic of Korea as the official host—its second time leading the global celebration. UNEP
Audio Languages: English, Korean
29 May 2025
UN / GUTERRES CLIMATE CRISIS
Following the Leaders’ Session on Climate and the Just Transition convened by Secretary-General António Guterres and President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil, the Secretary-General told reporters that “No group or government can stop the clean energy revolution.” UNIFEED
Audio Languages: English
23 April 2025
UNEP / CLOSING OF INC-5 IN BUSAN KOREA
The fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-5) concluded at the Busan Exhibition and Convention Centre in Busan, Republic of Korea. This pivotal meeting aims to finalize an international legally binding instrument addressing plastic pollution, including in the marine environment. UNEP
Audio Languages: English
1 December 2024
TIMOR LESTE / MANGROVE CONSERVATION
Rehabilitating Timor-Leste's mangroves has been a key focus of the Coastal Resilience Program, led by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). The local NGO Konservasaun Flora no Fauna (KFF) with support from UNDP, built a mangrove study center and a tourist site in Hera, and has nursed between 30,000 to 40,000 trees every year to rehabilitate mangrove forests. UN NEWS
6 November 2024
UN / SEA LEVEL RISE
Secretary-General António Guterres said “our world is in dangerous waters,” and explained that the global sea level is now rising faster than at any time in the last 3,000 years as greenhouse gases are heating our planet, expanding seawater and melting ice.” UNIFEED
Audio Languages: English, French
25 September 2024
IFAD / TUNISIA WORLD ENVIRNOMENT DAY
World Environment Day focuses this year on land restoration, desertification and drought resilience. In Tunisia, the UN's International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has been supporting a new project that promotes a more circular, sustainable use of natural resources while improving the quality of soils. IFAD
Audio Languages: Arabic
6 June 2024
NEW YORK / GUTERRES CLIMATE CHANGE
Delivering a special address at the American Museum of Natural History on climate change, Secretary-General António Guterres said, “the truth is, almost ten years since the Paris Agreement was adopted, the target of limiting long-term global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius is hanging by a thread.” UNIFEED
Audio Languages: English
5 June 2024
FAO / WORLD BEE DAY CELEBRATION
Marking the World Bee Day 2024, the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) QU Dongyu urged on Monday young people to learn more about bees and pollinators, including traditional and modern high-tech beekeeping, to safeguard the vital role these small creatures play in agriculture, ecological balance, and biodiversity preservation. FAO
Audio Languages: English
20 May 2024
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UNEP / UNEA-6 HIGH LEVEL EVENT
Senior officials called for action and solutions at the opening of the High-Level segment of the sixth edition of the UN Environmental Assembly (UNEA-6). UNEP
Audio Languages: English
29 February 2024
News Stories
UN / 2023 ANNUAL WRAP
The work of the United Nations remained vital in 2023, a year that was marked by humanitarian crises fuelled by conflicts, natural disasters and the devastating effects of climate change. UNIFEED / FILE
Audio Languages: Arabic, English, Portuguese
27 December 2023