The ocean absorbs around 30 per cent of human-caused carbon dioxide (COâ‚‚) emissions and 90 per cent of excess heat trapped by ...
States Parties shall guarantee to persons with disabilities political rights and the opportunity to enjoy them on an equal basis with others, and shall undertake: a) To ensure that persons with ...
October 2026 - After Hurricane Sandy, New York swore never again. But as climate change threatened to bring in ever more ...
An estimated $4 trillion a year is needed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. How to fill this gap? Tax is one answer – and the question that occupies the UN Tax Committee, an ...
COP17, the UN Biodiversity Conference, comes at a critical halfway point in the global effort to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030. Running from 19 to 30 October, the meeting will take stock ...
Biodiversity losses continue to upend the lives of billions of people whose future prosperity depends on countries taking ...
Less than a month before the UN climate conference COP31 opens in Antalya, Türkiye, representatives of three successive summit presidencies gathered to address a pressing question: How can the world ...
Over the last 60 years, at least 40% of all internal conflicts have been linked to natural resource exploitation. At the same time, natural resources are often targeted in war time, putting vulnerable ...
The Anti-Racism Office and UN Women invite you to join “Honouring our Values at Home: Advancing anti-racism, gender equality ...
Background Throughout its history, the United Nations family has celebrated diversity and promoted the rights and well-being of persons with disabilities, including learning differences and ...
Secretary-General The Secretary-General contributes actively to the implementation of the responsibility to protect principle and is mandated to bring issues or situations threatening the maintenance ...
In its resolution 72/249 of 24 December 2017, the General Assembly decided to convene an Intergovernmental Conference, under the auspices of the United Nations, to consider the recommendations of the ...