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29 Sep 2021 NEW YORK NY, United States

Guterres Warns Of Conflict Caused By Water Crisis

Secretary-General warns UN Security Council of the possibility of increasing climate-related conflict 

2 Jul 2021 New York, United States

UN Targets Freshwater Bodies In Decade Of Ecosystem Restoration

UNEP's decade of ecosystem restoration is underway with a rallying cry to replant and protect forests, clean up rivers and seas and implement sweeping reformations of agriculture. Armed with reports identifying a $4.1 Trillion USD financing gap while promising a 30-fold return on investment, UNEP and the UNFAO call on the public and private sectors to massively scale up their efforts, while setting out mechanism to monitor and measure progress over the next 10 years. Freshwater is one of 8 major types of ecosystems suffering from dangerous levels of degradation.

18 Mar 2021 NEW YORK NY, United States

UN Adopts Environmental-Ecosystem Economic Accounting Approach

Wetlands and water filtration ecosystems to be incorporated into calculations that impact policy and decision-making.

17 Mar 2021 New YORK NY, United States

“If you don’t feed people, you feed conflict”: Guterres

Conflict reduces access to vital resources like water and electricity, and also drives hunger.

UN Secretary General briefs Security Council.

3 Feb 2021 WASHINGTON DC, United States

Biden’s First Steps On Road to Blue-Green Recovery

Newly-inaugurated US President Joseph Biden has wasted little time in honouring his campaign promise to prioritise climate policy and undo a previous deregulation agenda, and science-denialism ideology propagated by his predecessor.On his first day in office, President Biden demonstrated his commitment to tackling the climate crisis with several executive orders including re-joining the Paris Agreement, revoking the withdrawal of the US from the World Health Organisation (WHO) and cancelling the Keystone XL pipeline...

21 Jan 2021 PARIS, France

Multi-Billion USD Funding Announced for Sahel Great Green Wall Project

In a January announcement at the the "One Planet Summit" for biodiversity, President of France Emmanuel Macron committed to a $14 Billion USD grant to scale up work on the Great Green Wall (GGW) initiative.The GGW, which was established in 2007, is Africa’s flagship initiative to tackle climate change, desertification and land degradation across the Sahel region - which covers the land surrounding the Sahara Desert in Africa...

17 Dec 2020 GENEVA, Switzerland

Disastrous Climate Damage Continued In 2020

The World Meterological Organization (WMO) assesses that 2020 is on track to be the second warmest year in the most recent decade, with the warmest six years being since 2015.Preliminary information, based on data collected from January to October 2020, shows how high-impact events such as floods, extreme heat and wildfires affected millions of people...

17 Dec 2020 Glasgow, Scotland

US Will Host A Climate Summit In First Quarter Of 2021

United States President-elect Joe Biden has announced that the US will host a climate summit of the world’s major economies before the end of March 2021. Biden has already committed the US re-joining the Paris Climate Agreement on the day of his inauguration in January.The announcement follows a virtual "Climate Ambition Summit" co-hosted by the UN, the United Kingdom, Britain, France, Italy, and Chile on 12-13 Decmber which was organised to mark the fifth anniversary of the Paris accord and was held in lieu of the originally-scheduled COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, which will now happen in November 2021...

10 Nov 2020 NEW YORK NY, United States

Conflict And The Environment Are Deeply Interlinked: Guterres

The United Nations Secretary-General has called for better management of natural resources and ecosystems to pave a path towards peace in war-torn societies and help crisis-affected countries boost sustainable development.“Not only do natural resources underpin the delivery of many basic services, such as water or electricity, but they can also be used as a platform for trust building and benefit sharing between divided groups,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a 6 November message marking International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict...

15 Sep 2020 GENEVA, Switzerland

Floods And Droughts Account For 90 Percent Of Impacts Of Natural Disasters Worldwide

Record heat, ice loss, wildfires, floods and droughts continue to worsen, affecting communities, nations and economies around the world, the United in Science 2020 report finds.“Human-induced climate change is affecting life-sustaining systems, from the top of the mountains to the depths of the oceans, leading to accelerating sea-level rise, with cascading effects for ecosystems and human security,” the multi-organization high-level compilation of latest climate science information states...

25 Aug 2020 Damascus, Syria

Civil Society Groups Appeal To UN As Key Syria Water Station Disabled Again In Conflict Zone

For the eighth time since October 2019, actions by Turkey and Sunni rebel allies cut water service from the Allouk (Alok) pumping station in Syria, 13 August.While flow from the station was partially restored 23 August, potable water supply has not yet been restored to parts of Al-Hasakeh city which is under control of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which is considered by Turkey to be a terrorist group...

15 Jul 2020 NEW YORK NY, United States

UN Launches SDG 6 Global Acceleration Framework

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres joined UN-Water Chair, Gilbert Huongbo 9 July in the launch of the Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6) Global Acceleration Framework. SDG 6, one of 17 Sustainable Development Goals established by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015, calls for clean water and sanitation for all people...