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 ...

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 ...

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 – ...

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 ...

23 September 2026 — The Security Council has been briefed by some of the world's top AI executives on the huge benefits and huge risks the frontier technology presents. With warnings mounting that the ...

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 ...

September 2026 - Richard Gowan, Director of UN and Multilateral Diplomacy at the International Crisis Group in New York, has spent years studying the organization – its highs and lows. Ahead of the ...

Les progrès vers une éducation de qualité étaient déjà plus lents que nécessaire avant la pandémie, mais la COVID-19 a eu des effets dévastateurs sur l’éducation, entraînant des pertes d’apprentissage ...