List of International Days and Weeks | United Nations
Jan 4, 2024 · 15 Mar. International Day of Happiness (A/RES/66/281) 20 Mar. French Language Day. 20 Mar. Week of Solidarity with the Peoples Struggling against Racism and Racial Discrimination, 21-27 March (A ...
Take Action for the Sustainable Development Goals
Watch on. 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 ...
Causes and Effects of Climate Change | United Nations
Mar 1, 2022 · Fossil fuels – coal, oil and gas – are by far the largest contributor to global climate change, accounting for over 75 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions and nearly 90 per cent of all ...
What Is Climate Change? | United Nations - الأمم المتحدة
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. But since the 1800s ...
Sustainable Development Goals: 17 Goals to Transform our World
Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation. The manufacturing industry's recovery from COVID-19 is incomplete and uneven. Global ...
Renewable energy – powering a safer future | United Nations
But investments in renewable energy will pay off. The reduction of pollution and climate impacts alone could save the world up to $4.2 trillion per year by 2030. Moreover, efficient, reliable ...
Climate Action - United Nations Sustainable Development
Tackling Climate Change Goal 13 calls for urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts. It is intrinsically linked to all 16 of the other Goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable ...
The Sustainable Development Agenda
17 Goals for People, for Planet World leaders came together in 2015 and made a historic promise to secure the rights and well-being of everyone on a healthy, thriving planet when they adopted the ...
United Nations: Gender equality and women's empowerment
Gender equality is a cross-cutting objective and must be a key focus of national policies, budgets and institutions. Around 2.4 billion women of working age are not afforded equal economic ...
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 ...