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UN Secretary-General: A Rescue Plan For Sustainable Development
Opinion by the UN Secretary-General, on the upcoming Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development to be held in Sevilla, Spain, 30 June - 3 July 2025.
Not Just Another Beautiful Sunset: Why the Ocean Matters More Than You May Think
It’s easy to think of the ocean as just a massive body of water where we go swimming, surfing, or maybe take a boat ride on vacation. But the ocean is more than a beautiful backdrop for our Instagram photos or a seafood buffet source.
With the Mediterranean glittering in the background, UN Secretary-General António Guterres opened the Third United Nations Ocean Conference on Monday, delivering a blunt indictment of humanity’s fractured relationship with the sea.
They drift unseen, but everything depends on them. Plankton – the ocean’s lifeblood – regulate the climate, feed the seas, and shape life on Earth. Scientists along the French Riviera are in a race against time to unlock the mysteries of these tiny organisms before their decline reverberates across the planet.
The worsening humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip has reached “unprecedented levels of despair,” the UN said on Monday, amid more reports of people being killed and injured near newly-established distribution sites.
GOAL OF THE MONTH
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set a new universal standard for development which aims to ensure that no one is left behind.
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