An estimated $4 trillion a year is needed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. How to fill this gap? Tax is one answer – and the question that occupies the UN Tax Committee, an ...

Biodiversity losses continue to upend the lives of billions of people whose future prosperity depends on countries taking ...

The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which range from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date of 2015 – ...

COP17, the UN Biodiversity Conference, comes at a critical halfway point in the global effort to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030. Running from 19 to 30 October, the meeting will take stock ...

Draft programme of “A Planet Fit for the Future”, the special event convened by the President of the General Assembly in the ...

Rapid transformations – from artificial intelligence and digital technologies to renewable energy and demographic shifts – ...

Less than a month before the UN climate conference COP31 opens in Antalya, Türkiye, representatives of three successive summit presidencies gathered to address a pressing question: How can the world ...

The Secretary-General is deeply concerned by the escalation of fighting in and around El Obeid, North Kordofan state, including drone attacks impacting civilians and civilian infrastructure.He is ...

Media Advisory United Nations to launch 2026 World Social Report on New Economics of Social Inclusion Press briefing live on UN WebTV The report is under embargo until 15 October 2026, 12:30 pm ET ...

2026 Heroes of Tomorrow: UN SDG Action Awards Finalists Announced Selected from more than 7,000 applications across 170 countries, the finalists are advancing action for a just, peaceful and ...

Economic, digital and energy transformations are reshaping the world at extraordinary speed. Yet, billions of people remain excluded from the jobs, skills, services, infrastructure and protections ...