LONDON – The United Nations’ world food price index rose in November to its highest level since April 2023, recording its biggest gain in 19 months on the back of surging vegetable oil prices, data showed on Friday. The price index, compiled by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to track the most globally…
Carbon cuts ‘miles short’ of 2030 goal: UN Greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere reached new record highs in 2023, the UN warned on Monday, with countries falling “miles short” of what is needed to curb devastating global warming.Levels of the three main greenhouse gases — heat-trapping carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide — all…
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has issued a stark warning in its 2024 Emissions Gap Report, highlighting that greenhouse gas emissions are at an all-time high. The UN stressed the urgency of immediate and comprehensive action to avoid surpassing the critical 1.5°C global temperature increase limit set by the 2015 Paris Agreement. “Climate crunch…
World Food Programme has voiced concern over Lebanon’s ability to feed itself, saying thousands of hectares of farmland across the country’s south has been destroyed or abandoned due to Israeli attacks. “Agriculture-wise, food production-wise, (there is) extraordinary concern for Lebanon’s ability to continue to feed itself,” Matthew Hollingworth, WFP country director in Lebanon, told a…
Lexica generated AI image GENEVA: World skiing‘s governing body joined forces with the UN‘s weather agency on Thursday in a bid to feed its meteorological expertise into managing the “existential threat” to winter sports posed by climate change. Ski resorts around the world are increasingly being forced to confront the realities of a warming climate,…
US President Joe Biden makes his final appearance at the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, after dropping out of the race in July and endorsing his vice president as the Democratic nominee, the 81-year-old is not taking any chances. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif also attended the opening session of the 79th UNGA…
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said six staffers were killed in Israeli airstrikes on a UN-run school in the central Gaza Strip on Wednesday. At least 18 people were killed in two airstrikes on al-Jaouni School in the Nuseirat refugee camp on Wednesday, according to local health authorities. Among the victims was the…
Over 600,000 children in the Gaza Strip are deeply traumatized and living in rubble amid a devastating Israeli offensive, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said on Monday. “Boys and girls around the region are going back to UNRWA schools except in Gaza,” UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said on X. “They…
