Denmark, Finland and Norway announced additional contributions to the SOFF UN fund. SOFF is now capitalized with more than USD 100 million from 12 pioneer funders. The Systematic Observations ...

Sweden is contributing SEK 30 million (approximately CHF 2.4 million) to the Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF) from 2024 to 2026 to help developing economies and least developed ...

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) welcomes the Swedish government’s pledge of SEK 8 billion (USD 763 million) for the Fund’s second replenishment. Sweden has been a long-term contributor to GCF, supporting ...

The Swedish NGO Barnfonden, the Spanish NGO Educo and the Italian NGO WeWorld are launching the initiative Grow the Future to make children affected by environment and climate crisis part of the ...

Thank you for joining us today. We are racing the clock. Violent weather is inflicting human tragedy and economic destruction worldwide. And efforts to limit the rise in global temperature to 1.5 ...

The United Nations University (UNU) has launched a new Hub on Water in a Changing Environment (WICE) at Lund University. This is the fourth UNU Hub globally and the second in Europe, working closely ...

It is a pleasure to join you. We need every country to prepare and submit ambitious new national climate action plans – or NDCs – by COP30 next year, as promised. These must align with 1.5 degrees, ...

“I thank you, President Aliyev, the COP President, Mukhtar Babayev, and the Government of Azerbaijan for your welcome and hospitality.

It is a pleasure to join you today. And I thank the COP Presidency for bringing us together. The gains many of you have helped to secure on loss and damage must not themselves be lost. Our world is ...

© UNICEF/Dar Al Mussawir - People gather around a bombed building in a southern suburb of Beirut. UNRWA confirmed another six staff have been killed, bringing the ...

First of all, I want to thank South Africa and the European Union and our co-chairs for the extraordinary work that in a very limited amount of time they were able to produce, and to say that we are ...

Den islandske arkitekten Arnhildur Pálmadóttir har utviklet bygninger som kan ha opptil 40 prosent lavere karbonavtrykk sammenlignet med tradisjonelle bygg. Tidligere denne måneden ble hennes innsats ...