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Reactions as UN adopts Pact for the Future to address global challenges

The UN General Assembly on Sunday, September 22, 2024, unanimously adopted the Pact for the Future, along with its annexes, the Global Digital Compact...

79th UN General Assembly opens in New York

The 79th session of the UN General Assembly opened on Tuesday, September 10, 2024, in New York, with incoming President Philemon Yang outlining a...

Stopping war, stepping up climate action, top UNGA78 debate

UN General Assembly President, Dennis Francis, has said that ending the war in Ukraine, promoting climate action and ramping up efforts to achieve the...

African leaders warn of deadly malaria emergency, seek to address funding shortfall

African Union Heads of State and Government, global health leaders and development partners on Friday, September 22, 2023, issued a joint call for urgent...

UNGA: Nigeria playing rallying role in addressing biodiversity crisis – Tinubu

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of Nigeria, speaking at high level event for “Nature and people: From ambition to action” that held in the margin...

World leaders commit to new targets to end TB

World leaders at the United Nations General Assembly’s High-Level Meeting on Tuberculosis have approved a Political Declaration with ambitious new targets for the next...

WHO welcomes world leaders’ ‘historic’ commitment to better respond to future pandemics

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has welcomed the “historic” commitment shown on Wednesday, September 20, 2023, by global leaders at the United Nations General...

UNGA 78: Annual cost of achieving SDGs estimated at $5bn

UN economists have said the cost of achieving ambitious sustainable development targets is estimated at between $5.4 billion and $6.4 billion per year between...

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South African Embassy in Brazil invites climate delegation to hear grassroots energy justice solutions

In a show of growing interest in grassroots-led climate action, the South African embassy in Brazil extended an invitation...
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French govt offers firm €149m grant for green hydrogen production plant

Lhyfe, a producer of green and renewable hydrogen for mobility and industry, has disclosed that the French Prime Minister has officially confirmed, by signature, a €149 million grant...

Carbon capture: Planetary Technologies withdraws from St. Ives Bay amid community concerns

In what appears to be another failed geoengineering experiment, Canadian company Planetary Technologies has withdrawn from Cornwall’s St. Ives Bay,...

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French govt offers firm €149m grant for green hydrogen production plant

Lhyfe, a producer of green and renewable hydrogen for mobility...