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Climate Change
The clean energy transition needs land. Can it help restore it too?
What if the infrastructure needed to fight climate change could also help repair the land beneath it? At a UN desertification conference…
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UN chief calls for ‘enlightened self-interest’ from world leaders to save ‘the whole planet’ from climate change
Concluding a week-long visit to the South Pacific, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres called on the world’s decision-makers to make…
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Stop Tuvalu and ‘the world from sinking’ UN chief tells island nation facing existential threat from rising seas
Tuvalu “faces an existential threat from sea-level rise”, the United Nations chief said during his visit to the Pacific island…
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‘Climate change is the battle of my life’, UN chief tells students living on the frontline in Fiji
The UN Secretary-General António Guterres saw the frontline of “the battle against climate change” for himself on Thursday, by taking…
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SDGs
UN chief lauds Fijians as ‘natural global leaders’ on climate, environment, hails ‘symbiotic relationship’ with land and sea
Fiji’s strong traditions of community and social responsibility, and its “symbiotic relationship” with its surroundings, has made its people “natural…
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UN chief outlines ‘intertwined challenges’ of climate change, ocean health facing Pacific nations on the ‘frontline’
Visiting Fiji for the first time as Secretary-General, António Guterres outlined two “fundamental challenges” facing leaders attending the Pacific Islands Forum…
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Climate Change
The Mediterranean’s own odyssey: An ecological treasure feels the strain
More than 2,500 years after Homer’s epic was first told, Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster retelling of The Odyssey has brought the…
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Climate Change
Strong El Niño ahead, UN weather agency warns
As much of the world faces grapples with above normal temperatures and major rainfall changes, the UN Meteorological Organization (WMO)…
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Climate alarm ‘blaring from every direction’
Climate-driven disasters are reaching “nightmare proportions” due to humanity’s “addiction” to fossil fuels, a top UN official warned on Tuesday.…
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