The following is a transcript of remarks delivered by UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell at a Sustainable Investment Forum on Tuesday 24 September 2024, during New York Climate Week. First, I’d like to thank Nick Henry and Eric Usher for inviting me to speak here with all of you today. So many of you in this room are leaders. On the one hand - this makes sense - early movers reap the biggest rewards. Decarbonization is inevitable and...

UN Climate Change News, 24 September 2024 -- The City of Liverpool in northwest England has become the world’s first ‘Accelerator City’ for climate action, under UN Climate Change’s Entertainment and Culture for Climate Action (ECCA) programme. The title comes in recognition of Liverpool’s impressive commitment to innovation and smart regulation to rapidly decarbonise the live music and TV/Film production sectors – both vital parts of the city’s economy – following several years of…

UN Climate Change News, 21 September 2024 – The Board of the Fund for responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD) has announced the selection of Ibrahima Cheikh Diong as its first Executive Director, for a four-year term beginning November 1, 2024. This is a key step towards responding to loss and damage by bringing finance to millions of people in developing countries on the frontlines of climate change. A Senegalese and American national, Mr. Diong brings over three decades of...

UN Climate Change News, 19 September 2024 – This year’s Standing Committee on Finance (SCF) Forum, hosted by the Tanzanian government and in partnership with UN Women, has for the first time centered its discussions on gender-responsive climate finance, recognizing that the climate emergency and the solutions impacts people of all genders in different ways. The forum, held alongside the 35th SCF meeting, provided a critical platform for a diverse range of stakeholders—governments…

Sowerby's beaked whale © Justin Hart/Cetaceanwatching-Azores Parties to the Agreement on the Conservation of Small Cetaceans of the Baltic, North East Atlantic, Irish, and North Seas (ASCOBANS) agreed on a series of important conservation measures at a meeting held from 10-12 September in Denmark. The agreement covers small migratory marine mammals, such as dolphins and porpoises, which are found in these northern and western European waters. Key outcomes of the 10th Meeting of the Parties to ASCOBANS (MOP10) are aimed...

A continuación se encuentra la traducción a español del discurso de apertura y del mensaje a las ministras y ministros, originalmente en inglés, de Simon Stiell, Secretario Ejecutivo de ONU Cambio Climático en la Sesión Especial del Foro de Ministras y Ministros de Medio Ambiente de América Latina y el Caribe, realizada en Río de Janeiro, Brasil, los días 11 y 12 de septiembre de 2024. Este texto también se encuentra disponible en portugués aquí. Discurso de apertura…

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The following is a transcript of remarks delivered by UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell at the 10th African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, on 5 September 2024. (Portuguese translation of the speech is available here; Arabic translation here) Excellencies, distinguished guests, colleagues and friends, Today I want to start with some good news. Climate action is the single greatest economic opportunity of…

The EUROBATS Secretariat is pleased to announce that Ms. Zrinka Domazetovic has been appointed as the new Executive Secretary of the Agreement on the Conservation of Populations of European Bats (EUROBATS). She will take up her new position on 28 October 2024. Ms. Domazetovic has 20 years of experience in biodiversity conservation policy and its implementation. She has worked in the ministry responsible for nature protection in Croatia, for over a decade as a Head of Service for Biodiversity. She...