Denmark, Finland and Norway announced additional contributions to the SOFF UN fund. SOFF is now capitalized with more than USD 100 million from 12 pioneer funders. The Systematic Observations ...

© UNICEF/Dar Al Mussawir - People gather around a bombed building in a southern suburb of Beirut. UNRWA confirmed another six staff have been killed, bringing the ...

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) welcomes the Swedish government’s pledge of SEK 8 billion (USD 763 million) for the Fund’s second replenishment. Sweden has been a long-term contributor to GCF, supporting ...

The United Nations University (UNU) has launched a new Hub on Water in a Changing Environment (WICE) at Lund University. This is the fourth UNU Hub globally and the second in Europe, working closely ...

Sweden is contributing SEK 30 million (approximately CHF 2.4 million) to the Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF) from 2024 to 2026 to help developing economies and least developed ...

The Swedish NGO Barnfonden, the Spanish NGO Educo and the Italian NGO WeWorld are launching the initiative Grow the Future to make children affected by environment and climate crisis part of the ...

Thank you for joining us today. We are racing the clock. Violent weather is inflicting human tragedy and economic destruction worldwide. And efforts to limit the rise in global temperature to 1.5 ...

First of all, I want to thank South Africa and the European Union and our co-chairs for the extraordinary work that in a very limited amount of time they were able to produce, and to say that we are ...

It is a pleasure to join you. We need every country to prepare and submit ambitious new national climate action plans – or NDCs – by COP30 next year, as promised. These must align with 1.5 degrees, ...

“I thank you, President Aliyev, the COP President, Mukhtar Babayev, and the Government of Azerbaijan for your welcome and hospitality.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) will launch its flagship State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) 2024 report at an online event on Friday 8 November. In 2023, the report ...

Philippe Lazzarini (on screen), Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), briefs the informal meeting of the General Assembly ...