Tag: Antonio Guterres

• Wednesday, April 22nd 2020 - 06:35 UTC

  UN chief urges governments to address climate change emergency, on 50th anniversary of Earth Day

  

  United Nations chief Antonio Guterres urged governments to use their economic responses to the coronavirus pandemic to tackle the “even deeper emergency” of climate change, in a message for the 50th anniversary of Earth Day.

• Wednesday, April 1st 2020 - 07:58 UTC

  UN Guterres rates coronavirus pandemic the worst global crisis since WWII

  

  The coronavirus pandemic is the worst global crisis since World War II, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday, expressing concern that it could trigger conflicts around the world.

• Monday, March 23rd 2020 - 06:43 UTC

  World Water Day, everyone has a role to play, Antonio Guterres

  

  The world’s water resources are under unprecedented threat. Today, some 2.2 billion people lack safe drinking water and 4.2 billion people live without access to adequate sanitation. Unless we act with urgency, the impacts of climate change are projected to exacerbate these figures. By 2050, between 3.5 and 4.4 billion people will live with limited access to water, with more than 1 billion of them living in cities.

• Monday, February 24th 2020 - 07:47 UTC

  “Decolonization is a process guided by the aspirations and needs of the communities living in the territories”

  

  With 17 non-self-governing territories remaining worldwide, United Nations chief Antonio Guterres has said that decolonization is a process that has to be guided by the aspirations and needs of the communities living in the territories.

• Thursday, January 23rd 2020 - 11:17 UTC

  Filmus scheduled to discuss the Malvinas Question with C24 delegates and UN Secretary cabinet chief

  

  Argentina will reaffirm its legitimate and imprescriptible sovereignty rights over the South Atlantic Islands and its maritime spaces during a meeting on Thursday in New York with members of the United Nations Special Decolonization Committee, or C24, reads a release from the foreign and worship ministry.

• Monday, December 30th 2019 - 17:46 UTC

  Antonio Guterres New Year's message: “We enter 2020 with uncertainty and insecurity”

  

  United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, issued a 2020 New Year’s message, where he explains the importance of the new generations to confront the raising problems that envolves “a warring world and a warming planet”. In front of the 75th anniversary of the UN, the message follows:

• Wednesday, October 9th 2019 - 09:39 UTC

  UN running out of funds for staff salaries next month, claims Antonio Guterres

  

  The United Nations may not have enough money for staff salaries next month if member states don't pay what they owe, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on Tuesday. He told the 193-member U.N. General Assembly's budget committee that if he had not worked since January to cut spending then the “we would not have had the liquidity to support” the annual gathering of world leaders last month.

• Thursday, September 26th 2019 - 08:53 UTC

  UN chief warns of 'unprecedented threat' from intolerance extremism and terrorism

  

  United Nations secretary-general Antonio Guterres warned on Wednesday that the world is facing “an unprecedented threat from intolerance, violent extremism and terrorism” that affects every country, exacerbating conflicts and destabilizing entire regions.

• Tuesday, September 24th 2019 - 09:43 UTC

  Thunberg berates older generations at UN Summit for their disregard of climate issues

  

  A group of 16 young activists led by Greta Thunberg, denounced Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany and Turkey to the UN for not protecting children from the impact of climate change in one of Monday's highlights at the historic climate summit in New York convened by the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres.

• Friday, August 23rd 2019 - 09:54 UTC

  France and UN lead battle for the protection of fire plagued Amazon rainforest

  

  France and the United Nations called on Thursday for the protection of the fire-plagued Amazon rainforest as Brazil's right-wing president blamed NGOs for promoting an “environmental psychosis” to damage the country's interests.