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UN Conference on environment calls for global cooperation

Published on: February 27, 2024
10:17

Nairobi, Feb 27 (Prensa Latina) Strengthening global cooperation is indispensable to face the climate crisis, said the president of the Sixth UN Environment Assembly (UNéA-6), in course here today, the Moroccan Minister of Transition, Leila Benali.

Climate crisis is not gender neutral – WMO

Published on: February 16, 2024
18:21

Geneva, Feb 16 (Prensa Latina) The climate crisis is far from “gender neutral”. Women and men are affected differently by weather and climate, and therefore need gender-sensitive information and services, WMO Secretary-General Celeste Saulo said in a keynote address.

Climate crisis has displaced 43 million children in six years

Published on: October 8, 2023
00:15

United Nations, Oct 8 (Prensa Latina) The climate crisis has forcibly displaced 43.1 million children in 44 countries over the last six years, according to estimates by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).

Venezuela to hold National Congress on Climate Crisis

Published on: September 4, 2023
10:22

Caracas, Sep 4 (Prensa Latina) Venezuela will hold the II National Congress on Climate Crisis from October 9 to 16, according to local media.

Conflicts, climate crisis aggravate food insecurity – UN

Published on: August 3, 2023
16:57

United Nations, Aug 3 (Prensa Latina) Conflicts are key factors in hunger and food insecurity aggravated by climate and economic crises, the UN Famine Prevention and Response Coordinator Reena Ghelani said. She said that while the threat of famine — people starving slowly to death — must be a red line, amid the multiple challenges the world is facing today, the number of people suffering from acute food insecurity reached a quarter billion in 2022 — the highest recorded in recent years.

Mattarella signs appeal for commitment to face climate crisis

Published on: August 3, 2023
12:32

Rome, Aug 3 (Prensa Latina) President Sergio Mattarella and five other European heads of State signed an appeal on Thursday to support the commitment to face the climate crisis that affects the world.

Petro proposes financing plan in Paris to face climate crisis

Published on: June 22, 2023
11:01

Paris, Jun 22 (Prensa Latina) Colombia's President Gustavo Petro proposed at the Summit for a New Global Financing Pact in France on Thursday to establish a global Marshall Plan to fight the climate crisis.

UN approves landmark resolution on climate justice

Published on: March 29, 2023
16:33

United Nations, Mar 29 (Prensa Latina) The UN General Assembly (UNGA) on Wednesday adopted a landmark resolution requesting the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for a secure legal opinion to clarify states´ obligations to tackle the climate crisis – and specify any consequences nations should face for inaction.

Capitalism will not be the solution to climate crisis, Arce assured

Published on: November 1, 2021
17:14

London, Nov 1 (Prensa Latina) Bolivian President Luis Arce assured today the solution to the climate change crisis will not be with more green capitalism and more global carbon markets.

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