What Is Climate Change? | United Nations - الأمم المتحدة
What Is Climate Change? Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns. Such shifts can be natural, due to changes in the sun’s activity or large volcanic eruptions.
Take Action for the Sustainable Development Goals
The Sustainable Development Goals are the blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. They address the global challenges we face, including those related to poverty ...
About Us | United Nations - الأمم المتحدة
One place where the world's nations can gather together, discuss common problems and find shared solutions.. The United Nations is an international organization founded in 1945. Currently made up ...
Renewable energy – powering a safer future | United Nations
Renewable energy – powering a safer future. Energy is at the heart of the climate challenge – and key to the solution.. A large chunk of the greenhouse gases that blanket the Earth and trap ...
What is renewable energy? | United Nations - الأمم المتحدة
Renewable energy is energy derived from natural sources that are replenished at a higher rate than they are consumed. Sunlight and wind, for example, are such sources that are constantly ...
List of International Days and Weeks | United Nations
Jan 4, 2025 · Week of Solidarity with the Peoples Struggling against Racism and Racial Discrimination, 21-27 March (A/RES/34/24)
United Nations: Gender equality and women's empowerment
With only seven years remaining, a mere 15.4 per cent of Goal 5 indicators with data are “on track”, 61.5 per cent are at a moderate distance and 23.1 per cent are far or very far off track ...
Sustainable Development Goals: 17 Goals to Transform our World
In 2020, the number of people living in extreme poverty (living on less than USD 2.15 a day) rose to 724 million. Those living in extreme poverty struggle to fulfill the most basic needs (health ...
Universal Declaration of Human Rights | United Nations
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a milestone document in the history of human rights. Drafted by representatives with different legal and cultural backgrounds from all regions ...
International Days and Weeks | United Nations - الأمم المتحدة
These are the international days and weeks currently observed by the United Nations. The United Nations designates specific days, weeks, years and decades as occasions to mark particular events or ...