Below are remarks delivered by UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell following the adoption of the agenda at the UN June Climate Meetings, Sixty-second session of the Subsidiary Bodies (SB62), in Bonn, Germany, on Tuesday 17 June 2025.

The United Nations officially recognised June 27th as the International Day of Deafblindness. The WFD has supported the hard advocacy work of the World Federation of the Deafblind (WFDB). We celebrate this new recognition of deafblind people who are part of deaf communities around the world.

16 June 2025. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk At 59th session of the Human Rights Council

Millions of people around the world are unable to have the number of children they want – whether they want more, fewer, or none at all. Recently, fertility declines are making headlines, with women all too often blamed for these demographic shifts. Some governments are employing drastic measures to incentivize young people to make fertility decisions in line with national targets. UNFPA