When it comes to environmental impact, food loss and waste generate eight percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

Today, a group of youth leaders presented a Manifesto and Open Letter during the Nature for Life Hub at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

When it comes to environmental impact, food loss and waste generate eight percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

It has three goals: the conservation of biological diversity; the sustainable use of nature; and the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from genetic science.

Unprecedented wildfires, storms and glacier melt are the strongest indications yet of how climate change threatens life on Earth.

Prepared for delivery at the webinar organized by the UN Forum on Forests Secretariat, UN DESA on the margins of the 75th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, titled “Forests at the heart of a green recovery from COVID-19”.

The past decade of progress to advance the health of women, children and adolescents must be protected from the impact of the pandemic and the responses to it, the report emphasizes.

Amid a potential global shortage in influenza vaccines and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the UN health agency has advised countries to protect the elderly and health workers first.

COVID-19 has exposed how the degradation of ecosystems is not only undermining Earth’s life-supporting systems, including the regulation of disease but also leaving our societies and economies tremendously vulnerable to sudden shocks.

Tax abuse, money laundering and corruption, plague the global financial system, a high-level UN panel reported on Thursday, launching an interim report that underscores the need for urgent reforms to achieve the 2030 Global Goals (SDGs).