May 2, 2024 NEW YORK — On April 26, the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) once again called on Canada and the US to decommission Line 5. In its report, the UNPFII included the following recommendation:

UN Climate Change News, 6 May 2024 - A growing number of global and regional initiatives are driving action to deploy decarbonization technologies across all high emitting industrial sectors. This was a central conclusion of experts gathering last month for a meeting of the Technology Executive Committee (TEC), the policy arm of the UNFCCC’s Technology Mechanism.

On World Press Freedom Day, UN Women spoke with Miriam Jemio, an environmental journalist from Bolivia, on pressing issues and safety of journalists.

In preparation for the reviews of these in-focus SDGs at HLPF, the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA), in collaboration with relevant UN system partners, is organizing a series of Expert Group Meetings (EGMs), bringing together experts and stakeholders from the UN system, governments, the private sector, academia, and civil society, to review progress on commitments