"Transparent climate reporting is a vital enabling tool to build stronger evidence base for more ambitious policies, drive greater investment and more resilient economies"

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Below are remarks delivered by UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell on 3 September 2025, during the high-level opening of the Global Transparency Forum taking place in Songdo, Republic of Korea, from 3-5 September.

Afghanistan: Swift response needed to help those hit by devastating earthquake

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The following is a statement attributable to Katharina Ritz, head of delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Afghanistan:

20 Years after Hurricane Katrina Devastated New Orleans, Trump’s Fossil Fuel Agenda Continues to Put Communities in Harm’s Way

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Twenty years ago, Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Louisiana, taking roughly 1,800 lives and indelibly changing the landscape of the Gulf Coast. Allison Woolverton | August 27, 2025

United Nations Forum on Minority Issues

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The 18th session of the United Nations Forum on Minority Issues will take place this year under exceptional circumstances will be undertaken in 27 - 28 November 2025.

The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)

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UN disability rights committee publishes findings on DPRK, Finland, Kiribati, Maldives, and State of Palestine

Plastic leakage could fall by more than 95% in Southeast and East Asia by 2050 with stronger policies

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Southeast and East Asia plays a central role in the global effort to tackle plastic pollution, given its substantial share of the global economy, strategic position in plastics value chains and rapidly rising plastics demand, according to a new OECD report.

World Social Summit: Draft Political Declaration of the “World Social Summit” under the title “the Second World Summit for Social Development”

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4 - 6 November 2025 | Doha, Qatar The United Nations General Assembly, through its resolutions 78/261 and 78/318, decided to convene the “World Social Summit” in 2025, under the title “the Second World Summit for Social Development.”

Gambia confronts climate change in a bid to slow youth exodus

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Farmer Mangasa Kijera still has vivid memories of the day in 2019 when a powerful storm rampaged through her village in eastern Gambia. “Everywhere was darkened with clouds as the winds tore through roofs and everything in its path," she says.

From Pledges to Progress: Climate Week in Addis starts 1 Sept to Boost Implementation

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UN Climate Change News, 26 August 2025 – From 1-6 September 2025, Climate Week in Addis Ababa will bring together negotiators with implementers in government and the real economy, along with key financiers including development banks, businesses, civil society, and Indigenous Peoples to help speed up climate implementation.

Climate Assemblies New Civic Institutions for a Climate-changed World

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Climate Assemblies are capturing the imagination of people interested in how citizens can participate in decision-making to address the climate and ecological crisis. Traditional institutions are struggling to cope with the challenges of a climate-changed world.

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