New report shows an almost 50 per cent reduction since start of century, but world fails to reach elimination targets. 11 June 2025

On June 5th, World Environment Day, the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit launched the largest climate justice gathering of its kind. Hosted by UN Human Rights and the University of Oxford, with co-host universities across the globe, the summit featured a 24-hour global livestream connecting continents in a unified call to action.

GENEVA – Barham Salih, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, launched the agency’s flagship Global Trends Report today, which reveals global forced displacement has decreased for the first time in a decade while remaining unacceptably high.

Below are remarks delivered by UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell during the opening of the UN June Climate Meetings in Bonn, Germany, on Monday 8 June 2026.