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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

11 October 2026 — UN Secretary-General António Guterres has condemned a Houthi missile attack on Riyadh’s main airport that Saudi authorities say killed 12 people and wounded more than 300.

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 ...