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NATURAL RESOURCES
Conferences
Global Resource Outlook launch - Sixth Session of the UN Environment Assembly
Press event for the launch of the Global Resources Outlook 2024 at the 6th United Nations Environment Programme Assembly (UNEA-6)
Audio Languages: English
1 March 2024
Media Stakeouts
Impacts of climate change on peace and security in South Sudan - Security Council Media Stakeout
Joint stakeout delivered by Albana Dautllari, Deputy Permanent Representative of Albania to the United Nations, on behalf of the Security Council pledgers of the Joint Pledges related to Climate, Peace and Security (Albania, France, Gabon, Ghana, Japan, Malta, Mozambique, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States) on the impacts of climate change on peace and security in South Sudan.
Audio Languages: Original
15 September 2023
Conferences
Facing a water challenge? We've got solutions! - SDG Media Zone (UN 2023 Water Conference)
Learn more about UNDP'S solutions catalogue offering tested, replicable and up scalable tools, approaches and innovations addressing challenges in ensuring water access, water security, and water quality through real stories from the ground. UNDP water projects improve lives for communities and enable various sectors to overcome water challenges exacerbated by climate change and affecting freshwater ecosystems, to accelerate sustainable development for all, leaving no one behind.
Audio Languages: English
24 March 2023
Conferences
Water For Food Security and Nutrition - SDG Media Zone (UN 2023 Water Conference)
Water and food security are inextricably connected. Water is a crucial element across humanitarian, development, and peace nexus. Addressing water-related issues lies at the core of responding to emergencies and tackling some of the root causes of current food security challenges. Systemic and multi-sectoral approach to water-related interventions are key to making meaningful and sustainable livelihood improvements and ensuring food security for today and in the future.
Audio Languages: English
24 March 2023
Conferences
Sustainable Climate Action for Water Crisis (2023 UN Water Conference Side Event)
The permanent missions of the Bahamas, Morocco, and Tajikistan, in affiliation with the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and in association with the World Youth Group, is hosting a high-level side event to provide governments, young parliamentarians, and Permanent Missions with the opportunity to share their contributions towards tackling the water crisis through sustainable climate change and capacity building.
Audio Languages: English, Original
23 March 2023
Conferences
Water for Peace: From Source to Sea (UN 2023 Water Conference Side Event)
Bangladesh and stakeholders will share experience of ADM for managing world's largest dynamic delta, and aspirations for bridging water governance with peace and solidarity.
Audio Languages: English, Original
23 March 2023
Conferences
Amazonian Flying Rivers: Securing the World ́s Hydrological Engine steered by Indigenous Peoples (UN 2023 Water Conference Side Event)
Understanding the importance of the Amazon for the global water agenda through indigenous governance systems and civil society joint actions.
Audio Languages: English
23 March 2023
Conferences
Mapping Our Way Out of Water Shortages - SDG Media Zone (UN 2023 Water Conference)
Freshwater is a prerequisite for life on Earth - for humans and the natural world. Yet in many places around the world, human's unsustainable use of freshwater is a critical threat to life and a barrier to development and equity. To better understand emerging freshwater shortages and inspire sustainable action, the National Geographic Society is launching a 5-year Freshwater Initiative to map global freshwater resources and initiate impactful new work in science, storytelling, technology, and education.
Audio Languages: English
23 March 2023
Conferences
Insights from Nigeria and around the world: countries harnessing the UN Water Convention to support water cooperation - SDG Media Zone (UN 2023 Water Conference)
The 1992 Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes, known as the Water Convention, has proven to be a unique global legal and institutional framework for transboundary water cooperation. Iraq is among over 20 countries worldwide in the process of joining the Convention.
Audio Languages: English
23 March 2023
Side Events
(Day 2) SDG Media Zone - UN 2023 Water Conference
Water is critical for sustainable development and the eradication of poverty and hunger, and is indispensable for human development, health and wellbeing. But billions of people worldwide still live without safely managed drinking water and sanitation.
Audio Languages: English, Original
23 March 2023
Security Council
The situation in the Great Lakes region - Security Council, 9165th meeting
Report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Region (S/2022/735)
Audio Languages: English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish, Original
26 October 2022