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 ...

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

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

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 ...

The September 2026 thematic brief, AI Agents, Misalignment and Loss of Human Control Risks: Evidence from the OpenAI-Hugging Face Incident, examines the incident as one of the clearest real-world ...

I welcome today’s decision by the General Assembly to reform financial rules that were putting the Organization’s stability at risk. By its action, the Assembly has agreed to introduce, for a ...

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 ...

Rural territories form the first mile of global food systems and underpin national economies. Home to 44 per cent of the world’s population and nearly 80 per cent of the world’s extreme poor, these ...

Adopted at the 2024 Summit of the Future, the Pact for the Future and its annexes – the Global Digital Compact and Declaration on Future Generations – is the most wide-ranging international agreement ...