The Executive Director of the UN global fund for education emphasizes the need to empower teachers and millions of children affected by forced displacement and climate change.
The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) have recognized three new restoration initiatives in East Africa, Mexico, and Spain. These initiatives are restoring almost five million hectares of marine ecosystems.
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.
Opening the Third United Nations Ocean Conference on 9 June, UN Secretary-General António Guterres stressed that the ocean is the ultimate shared resource, but warned that “we are failing it.”