University has created a Climate School, the first school to be here in a quarter century. Congratulations. It is a wonderful display of scholarship and leadership. I am also pleased to know that so many members of the Sustainable A new world is taking shape. More and more people recognize the limits of conventional criteria,…
And that number will reach almost % in The coming year, in short, gives us plenty of opportunities to stop the looting and begin the healing. One of our best allies is nature itself. Drastically reducing deforestation and systemic restoration of forests and other ecosystems is the greatest opportunity for nature-based climate change mitigation. Let…
We therefore need more ambition and commitment to meet targets and establish measurable means of implementation, including financing and monitoring mechanisms. This means achieving: More and more conservation areas managed effectively, in order to stop our onslaught against species and ecosystems; Biodiversity-positive agriculture and fishing, which reduces our overexploitation and destruction of nature; The progressive…
Which puts them in a unique position to move the needle, they must move the needle and lead the way. I call on developed countries to fulfill their long-standing promise to provide $ billion annually to help developing countries achieve our common climate goals. We haven’t achieved it yet. It is a question of fairness,…
However, we must advance even further. We need all governments to translate those promises into time-bound policies, plans and targets. This will provide certainty and confidence to companies and the financial sector so that they invest sending a clear in favor of that objective. It’s time: To put a price on carbon. To stop building…
South, the virus will inevitably tend to mutate and become more contagious, more deadly and, ultimately, more resistant to vaccines, ready to strike again. to the Global North. Furthermore, recent studies have revealed that vaccine hoarding could cost the global economy up to $ trillion, an impact of which almost half would impact the richest…
The COVID- pandemic unleashed chaos in every country and every economy. We lost million lives, including beloved members of our United Nations family. Human losses continue to multiply. The economic costs do not stop increasing. million jobs have disappeared. Extreme poverty returns to levels not seen in a generation. Inequalities are widening. Hunger increases again….
People with disabilities, it was important for the United Nations System to find ways to collaborate with Government partners and ensure they had better tools and understanding of how to establish and implement policies that would fulfill commitments and lead to concrete change for people with disabilities.” Placing disability inclusion at the . Center of…
Caption: In Indonesia, a “Show Your Sign” campaign poster promotes the International Day of People with Disabilities.We were very . With the interest in learning and using sign language shown by people across Indonesia for this campaign Indonesian Sign Language is an official language and we hope that some people will be in starting to…
Sanaka Samarasinha, UN Chief Executive Officer in Fiji, said: “At the beginning of the implementation of the UN Disability Inclusion Strategy, we realized that the UN in the Pacific was really inaccessible to people with disabilities. disability. Assuming There is doubt our responsibility and opening the door to criticism from our partners in the national…
In light of the recent World Disability Summit, where world leaders came together to agree and commit to what needs to be done to ensure the realization of the rights of people with disabilities, let us take a moment to reflect on the For a more contributions that UN country teams and partners are making…
The limited opportunities that currently exist on the continent have during the COVID- pandemic and other ongoing crises to conflict and climate change. efforts are to address violence against women The rise in violence and girls , especially as countries and communities plan to recover and rebuild from the pandemic. Two Ethiopian girls wearing headscarves…
