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As a Goodwill Ambassador for the UNDP since 2023, Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden traveled to Khulna and Chattogram today to observe directly the effects of climate change and the UNDP’s efforts to adapt to them...

Minister of the Environment, Forests, and Climate Change Saber Hossain Chowdhury stated today that as climate change is a global issue, everyone involved must take action. He also emphasized how important it is for artists to...

Most children and young people say they have heard of climate change but only half understand what it is, according to a new UNICEF-Gallup poll, as world leaders gather at this year’s COP28. The global poll...

Pregnant women, babies and children face extreme health risks from climate catastrophes that warrant urgent attention, according to a Call for Action released today by United Nations (UN) agencies ahead of the global Conference of the...

A concerned Iraqi father gestures to a blister on his one-year-old daughter’s cheek, which is the result of a parasite infection that sandflies in her isolated village carried. “It’s a skin disease, the ‘Baghdad boil’,” Najeh...

Pope Francis urged attendees of the next COP28 climate meetings to accept binding regulations on the phase-out of fossil fuels on Wednesday, warning that the world “is collapsing” as a result of global warming. The 86-year-old...

UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell concluded a four-day visit to Brazil to highlight the plight of children and adolescents in the country impacted by poverty and climate change. “Prioritizing children and their well-being must be a...

Children in Africa are among the most at risk of the impacts of climate change but are woefully neglected by the key climate financing flows required to help them adapt, survive and respond to the climate...

UN experts have written to Saudi Aramco and its financial supporters, confronting them over claims that their operations are causing adverse effects on human rights related to climate change. Exactly two months after it was delivered,...

As he met with Chinese officials in Beijing on Tuesday, US climate envoy John Kerry stated that global warming posed a “threat to all of humanity” and necessitated “global leadership.” “Climate, as you know, is a...