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State of the Planet Speech

The Secretary-General weighs in on the state of the planet

24 November 2020

On 2 December at Columbia University, the UN Secretary-General delivered a landmark speech on the state of the planet, setting the stage for dramatically scaled-up ambition on climate change over the coming year. He called for making peace with nature by starting now to achieve carbon neutrality, putting global finance to work for climate and protecting the most vulnerable. Across all actions for climate and our shared planet, we must act with urgency, but also hope, as many of the solutions are at hand. See more.

Mangroves growing in a box on a pontoon at the marina in Doha

Testing floating mangroves in Fiji

What if mangroves could float? If so, their narrow range in the space between land and sea could be widened to include vast stretches of the surface of the ocean, bringing big benefits.

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Preserving life and nature in the fact of the climate crisis

A pivotal figure in an indigenous community in the Amazon rainforest region of Ecuador shares his unique insights and perspective, drawn from a lifetime of spiritual experience.

Cattle farmers in a dry desert

Holding the front line against desertification

Some one billion people globally under the age of 25 live in regions where they depend on the land and natural resources for jobs and livelihoods, but their future is increasingly under threat due to desertification and land degradation.