Friends, esteemed colleagues, and all those who care about the health of our planet: It is a pleasure to join you today for the OxfordSpeaks Speaker Series as we celebrate the 52nd World Environment Day. Every year on June 5th, we engage hundreds of …
Riyadh, 05 June 2024 – With a focus on restoring degraded lands, combatting desertification and building drought resilience, countries around the world came together today to mark World Environment Day 2024, under the rallying call ‘Our Land. Our Future. …
Check against delivery. Your Royal Highness, Your Excellency, Eng. Abdulrahman Abdulmohsen Al-Fadley, Minister for Environment, Water and Agriculture, Excellencies, Ministers, Ambassadors, invited guests. My thanks to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for …
Millions of people are expected to engage in today’s World Environment Day. Host country, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, will hold a high-level policy event in the capital, Riyadh, where United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Executive Director Inger …
My thanks to Minister Forssmed for hosting this 9th Meeting of the Global Leaders Group on Antimicrobial Resistance, or AMR. The active and regular engagement of this group demonstrates a keen understanding of the urgent need to limit the emergence and …
We cannot turn back time, but we can grow forests, revive water sources, and bring back soils. We are the generation that can make peace with land.
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We cannot turn back time, but we can grow forests, revive water sources, and bring back soils. We are the generation that can make peace with land.
On behalf of UNEP and the Executive Director, my thanks to the government of Italy for the kind invitation. Climate change, biodiversity loss and land degradation, pollution – what we know as the triple planetary crisis – are not only environmental …
Our economies have for too long been built on the relentless extraction, use and wasting of resources, which destroys nature, warms the climate, pollutes ecosystems, feeds inequalities and throws away resources that still have huge value to economies. So, …
Ottawa, 29 April 2024 – The fourth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment (INC-4), concluded today in Ottawa with an advanced …
Your excellency, Engineer Abdulrahman Abdulmohsen Alfadley, Minister of Environment, Water and Agriculture Your excellencies, distinguished guests, friends, It is wonderful to be here in Riyadh. On 5th June, five weeks from now, we will mark World …
Riyadh, 28 April 2024 – World Environment Day (WED) 2024 host the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) have launched campaigns to combat desertification, restore land and build drought resilience ahead of global WED …
This year’s World Environment Day, held on 5 June and hosted by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, focuses on land restoration, desertification and drought resilience. More than 2 billion hectares of land are degraded, affecting billions of people and …
Secretary-General’s initiative aims to build trust through global guiding principles New York, 26 April 2024 – With ever-growing needs for minerals that are critical for renewable energy technologies, Secretary-General António Guterres is leveraging the …
This year’s World Environment Day, held on 5 June and hosted by Saudi Arabia, focuses on land restoration, desertification and drought resilience. Over 2 billion hectares of land are degraded, affecting billions of people and threatening over half of …
The UN Environment Programme Special Programme and the Specific International Programme (SIP) of the Minamata Convention on Mercury launched their call for funding, coinciding with the International Day of Multilateralism on April 24. These initiatives aim …
Coming soon Nepal’s Terai Arc Landscape is one of the last places where tigers, elephants, rhinos, and humans co-exist. In recent years, the country’s tiger population tripled – and attacks were on the rise. Learn how the region found a strategy to balance …
I am pleased participate in today’s debate. My thanks to the President of the General Assembly for organizing this very successful week. When it comes to energy, we face what seems to be a dilemma. On the one hand, climate change is hitting harder every …
