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The United General Assembly has decided to mark January 26 as the International Day of Clean Energy. The decision was co-signed by the United Arab Emirates and Panama. The information was disclosed by Abu Dhabi-based International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). The announcement is made ahead of the Conference of the …

UN leader Antonio Guterres on Saturday slammed the world’s rich countries and energy giants for throttling poor nations with “predatory” interest rates and crippling fuel prices. Guterres told a summit of the most deprived states on the planet that wealthy nations should provide $500 billion a year to help others …

Russian Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Vasily Nebenzya urged the UN Security Council to launch an investigation into the attacks on Nord Stream gas pipelines in September last year, saying the UN is capable of establishing mechanisms to investigate such an incident after UN said it had no mandate. …

The United Nations is launching a satellite-based system to detect and track global methane emissions as part of efforts to reduce emissions of methane, which is a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. During the COP27 climate summit in Egypt’s Sharm El Sheikh, the UN Environment Programme announced on …

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday urged urgent action to ensure the security of Europe’s largest nuclear power plant which is currently under Russian control. Following a meeting with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, Zelenskyy said on Telegram that particular attention was paid to …

The United Nations chief has called for an immediate end to all military activity around Europe’s largest nuclear power plant in southeastern Ukraine, as Moscow and Kyiv blamed each other for renewed shelling. Ukraine’s Energoatom agency said the Zaporizhzhia complex was struck five times on Thursday, including near where radioactive …

The United Nations chief warned in an address on Monday that “humanity is just one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation,” citing the war in Ukraine, nuclear threats in Asia and the Middle East and many other factors. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres gave the dire warning at the opening of …

The mankind is too close to nuclear annihilation, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres tweeted on Sunday. “Nearly 14,000 nuclear weapons are stockpiled around the world. Humanity remains unacceptably close to nuclear annihilation,” Guterres said. “Now is the time to lift the cloud of nuclear conflict for good, eliminate nuclear weapons from …

Failure to act now on climate change will result in “catastrophic” consequences for the world, the leader of the United Nation’s next climate talks has warned. “I don’t think there’s any other word for it,” Alok Sharma, the British minister in charge of the 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP26), …

The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and the United Nations (UN) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to advance the use of host-country generated renewable energy in peacekeeping missions. Under the agreement, IRENA and the UN will seek opportunities to work with countries that host UN peacekeeping operations to identify …