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Health risks on the rise as heatwave intensifies across Europe: WMO
The dangers associated with the heatwave that’s engulfing the northern hemisphere aren’t over yet, the UN World Meteorological…
Halfway to 2030, world ‘nowhere near’ reaching Global Goals, UN warns
The world is “woefully off track” to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the 2030 deadline, top…
UN-brokered grain and fertilizer deals ‘indispensable’ to global food security
The food and fertilizer export deals brokered by the UN last year with Ukraine and Russia have played…
More African countries to receive life-saving malaria vaccine
Twelve African countries will receive 18 million doses of the first-ever vaccine against malaria over the next two…
Global shipping poised to get new emissions-fighting strategy
A new strategy is expected to set global shipping on an ambitious path towards phasing out greenhouse gas…
UN rights chief: ‘Don’t leave the climate crisis for our children to fix’
Global heating is a burning human rights issue, as extreme weather and climate disasters threaten humanity’s universal right…
Child health: More focus needed on earliest years, urges WHO
A new progress report launched on Thursday by UN agencies highlights the need to step up investment in nurturing care…
UN agencies head up new $115 million push for cleaner, healthier oceans
The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and four partner agencies have been tasked with leading a new push…
Financial system must evolve in ‘giant leap towards global justice’: Guterres
Developing countries are buckling under high debt and exorbitant borrowing costs, that prevent them from reviving their economies,…
Europe warming twice as fast as other continents, warns WMO
Europe has been warming twice as fast as the global average since the 1980s, it was revealed on…