UN - Climate changes

1. Ministers from Europe and beyond commit to address housing emergency

   Across Europe and beyond, housing costs are rising faster than incomes and many families are spending up to half their salary just to have a place to call home.

2. Guterres urges countries to ‘seize this historic opportunity’ as renewable energy use grows

   With clean energy on the rise, the UN Secretary-General renewed his longstanding call for countries to make the transition from fossil fuels that cause global warming. 

3. ‘The extraordinary power of ordinary people’: World leaders spotlight youth as agents of progress

   Young people are at the heart of the world’s most urgent challenges, and on Friday, their role in shaping solutions took centre stage at the UN General Assembly. World leaders spoke of the remarkable promise held by today’s generation, even as they acknowledged the persistent barriers millions of children and youth face in accessing education, healthcare and political voice.

4. Sinking islands, vanishing forests: World leaders call for urgent climate action

   From the rainforests of Central America to low-lying atolls in the Pacific and drought-stricken plains in Africa, leaders came to the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday with a common message: climate change is no longer a distant threat, but an immediate danger demanding bolder global commitments.

5. New national climate plans unveiled at high-level summit ahead of COP30 conference

   From accelerating the move to clean energy to planting acres of trees, leaders from nearly 100 countries announced or reiterated new national climate action plans during a meeting on Wednesday as part of the high-level week of the UN General Assembly.