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UN Secretary-General: A Rescue Plan For Sustainable Development

UN Secretary-General: A Rescue Plan For Sustainable Development

Opinion by the UN Secretary-General, on the upcoming Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development to be held in Sevilla, Spain, 30 June - 3 July 2025.

Press release: United Nations Selects Indigenous Social Worker from Canada, Kenyan Social Entrepreneur to be awarded 2025 UN Mandela Prize

Press release: United Nations Selects Indigenous Social Worker from Canada, Kenyan Social Entrepreneur to be awarded 2025 UN Mandela Prize

The laureates of the 2025 United Nations Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela Prize are Brenda Reynolds, a social worker of Saulteaux heritage in Canada, and Kennedy Odede, founder and CEO of Shining Hope for Communities, a Kenyan grassroots organization...

 

 

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 © The Ocean Story / Vincent Kneefel Up to 12 million metric tons of plastic enter the ocean every year — the equivalent of a garbage truck every minute.

Guterres calls for an end to ocean ‘plunder’ as UN summit opens in France

With the Mediterranean glittering in the background, UN Secretary-General António Guterres opened the Third United Nations Ocean Conference on Monday, delivering a blunt indictment of humanity’s fractured relationship with the sea.

 

© Heyi Zou Jean-Yves Carval (left), captain of the Sagitta III, and his chief mechanic, Christophe Kieger, fish zooplankton with a special net.

Drifting architects: Plankton, climate, and the race to understand our changing ocean

They drift unseen, but everything depends on them. Plankton – the ocean’s lifeblood – regulate the climate, feed the seas, and shape life on Earth. Scientists along the French Riviera are in a race against time to unlock the mysteries of these tiny organisms before their decline reverberates across the planet.

 

© UNRWA/Louise Wateridge Palestinians shelter in an UNRWA school in central Gaza.

Gaza: Search for food puts lives on the line

The worsening humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip has reached “unprecedented levels of despair,” the UN said on Monday, amid more reports of people being killed and injured near newly-established distribution sites.

 

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