Announcement / Statement
This category includes notifications, announcements regarding high-level staff changes and appointments, speeches, press conferences, or official letters from high-level representatives related to climate change.
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UN Secretary-General Presents 2025 Programme Budget Proposal
<p>In his remarks to the Fifth Committee on 16 October 2024, the Secretary-General highlighted that the budget proposal “reflects in many ways” the priorities set out in the recently adopted Pact for the Future, the Global Digital Compact, and the Declaration on Future Generations. These include “a commitment towards updating and reforming international cooperation to…
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UNOC-3 Panel Themes Agreed, Further Preparations Underway
<p>The Secretariat will be preparing concept papers on each of the ten themes. The Secretary-General of UNOC-3 invited Member States to submit, by 15 November, inputs to these concept papers, as well as suggestions on experts to serve as moderators and panelists.</p>
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UN Secretary-General Appoints Special Envoy on Water
<p>The Envoy seeks to galvanize partnerships and concerted efforts to advance the water agenda, including the follow-up on the outcomes of the UN 2023 Water Conference. Marsudi will represent the Secretary-General in global water processes and work with UN-Water and its members to support the implementation of the UN System-wide Strategy on Water and Sanitation.</p>
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Summit of the Future Provisional Programme Out
<p>In a letter dated 24 July 2024, the UNGA President indicates that “[i]n line with previous practice for comparable interactive dialogues, each dialogue will be co-chaired by two Heads of State or Government to be nominated through their respective regional groups, with due regard to geographical balance and gender parity”. Nominations are due by 16…
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Displacement, AI, IFI Engagement Among New ECOSOC President’s Priorities
<p>Robert Rae, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Canada to the UN, was elected President of ECOSOC for the 2025 session, succeeding Paula Narváez Ojeda, Permanent Representative of Chile. Also during the 25 July meeting, the Council adopted its provisional agenda and working arrangements and elected its bureau for the 2025 session.</p>
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FfD4 Preparatory Process Gets Underway
<p>PrepComm will meet again in New York, US, in December and in Mexico City, Mexico, in February 2025. An intersessional multi-stakeholder hearing is planned to be held in New York, in October 2025. In a letter dated 26 July 2024, the co-facilitators for the FfD4 outcome document issued a call for inputs for an elements…
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UNGA 79 President to Foster “Unity in Diversity” for Sustainable Development
<p>Outlining the thrust of his Presidency in his vision and mission statement, Yang describes the UNGA as “the lone forum where, based on sovereign equality, States in their diverse opinions meet to jointly seek solutions” through the free expression of diverse convictions, opinions, interests, and approaches. UN Secretary-General António Guterres looked forward to working closely…
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World Bank to Act as Host and Trustee for Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage
<p>“The Fund is expected to be operationalized over the coming months,” according to a World Bank press release. Approved by the UN Biodiversity Conference in 2022 – the same year the UN Climate Change Conference agreed to funding arrangements for loss and damage, the Global Biodiversity Framework Fund is already operational.</p>
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US, China Exchange Experiences with Climate Policies and Actions
<p>The two sides carried out in-depth discussions on areas identified in the Sunnylands Statement in 2023, including energy transition, methane and other non-CO2 GHGs, circular economy and resource efficiency, deforestation, and low-carbon and sustainable provinces, states, and cities. They exchanged experiences and discussed challenges with their respective climate policies and actions, “with a view to…
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Draft Programme for HLPF 2024 Available
<p>HLPF 2024 will review progress on SDGs 1, 2, 13, 16, and 17. It will support follow-up to the 2023 SDG Summit’s political declaration and contribute to the preparations for the Summit of the Future in September. Thirty-eight countries will present their VNRs.</p>
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