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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Concept note for “A Planet Fit for the Future”, the President of the General Assembly’s special event ahead of COP31 on ...

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

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 ...

The General Debate of the 81st Session of the United Nations General Assembly took place during High-level Week, from 22 to 28 September 2026, at United Nations Headquarters in New York. Held under ...

23 September 2026 — The Security Council has been briefed by some of the world's top AI executives on the huge benefits and huge risks the frontier technology presents. With warnings mounting that the ...

16 September 2026 - Ahead of the UN General Assembly’s high-level week, Secretary-General António Guterres said the world had entered “an era of deep uncertainty” and urged governments to embrace ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Secretary-General Calls for Global Fund to Address AI Capacity-Building Gaps in Developing Countries A new report of the Secretary-General finds that financing for artificial ...