Mongolia is strengthening its climate-resilient governance with UN support, integrating climate finance into its Vision 2050 strategy, boosting green lending, and protecting vulnerable communities from dzud shocks. 

Full story: https://un-dco.org/stories/accelerating-climate-resilient-governance-mongolia

Accelerating Climate-Resilient Governance in Mongolia

Micronesia is turning a new leaf in digital inclusion with the launch of the Tonoas Smart Island Digital Hub, powered by the UN Joint SDG Fund and ITU. The hub provides remote islanders with telemedicine, e-learning, financial tools, and civic services — helping bridge the digital divide. 

Full story: https://unsdg.un.org/latest/stories/micronesia-marks-new-era-digital-transformation

Micronesia Marks a New Era of Digital Transformation

During his visit to Barcarena in the Amazon basin – a UN-recognized Resilience Hub – the UN’s disaster risk reduction chief, Kamal Kishore, has been seeing climate resilience first hand; not just through infrastructure, but through imagination, education, and community-driven action. 

The top official is at COP30 in Belém and told UN News that from flood and heat-resilient schools – to empowered children shaping their own future – Barcarena demonstrates how local leadership can inspire global transformation.

Speaking to Felipe de Carvalho who’s also on the ground there, he praised the local school as “a guiding light” for climate adaptation, one he hopes to see replicated “at least 100,000” times worldwide. 

Audio credit: Felipe de Carvalho, UN News


A guiding light in the Amazon: Barcarena’s school proves model of climate resilience

• Ukraine: Spike in Russian attacks highlights need to extend refugee protections, says UNHCR
• WHO: European health sector fails nearly one in three survivors of gender-based violence 
• Youth Activists Summit celebrates hope over hate and ‘humanity over hostility’  

Audio credit: Daniel Johnson, UN News

UN News Today 20 November 2025 - Ukraine, gender-based violence, youth activism

Reducing inequality in Nepal remains a major challenge, as the co untry continues to struggle to meet its Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets. 

Among those tackling this issue is Aishworya Shrestha, a young Nepali social worker recently named a UN Young Leader for the SDGs. 

Ms. Shrestha leads community-driven mental health and empowerment programmes in some of Nepal’s most remote areas and works to engage young people around the world in advancing the SDGs.

The 17 Sustainable Development Goals, adopted by all UN Member States in 2015 aim to create a fairer, healthier, and more sustainable world. 

Each year, 17 Young Leaders are selected globally to help inspire action and accelerate progress toward these shared goals.

UN News’s Charlotte Frantz spoke with Ms. Shrestha about what this recognition means to her and how she plans to leverage the role to create meaningful change.

Audio Credit: Charlotte Frantz, UN News

From remote Nepali villages to the UN: Fighting inequality on a global scale

• Gaza: Two children killed per day since ceasefire, says UNICEF 
• Business must align with human rights standards, insists UN’s Volker Türk
• In Ukraine, not a day goes by without civilians coming under attack: OCHA

Audio credit: Daniel Johnson, UN News

UN News Today 21 November 2025 - Gaza, human rights, Ukraine

• UN human rights chief warns of risks from AI misuse, worker exploitation and rising corporate power
• Ukraine: UN notes civilian impact of Kharkiv strikes
• Gaza: UN says aid missions denied and shelter conditions worsening under winter rains
• Malaria: Gavi–UNICEF deal cuts vaccine price, set to protect millions more children

Audio credit: Katy Dartford, UN News

UN News Today 24 November 2025 - AI and human rights, Gaza and Ukraine updates, malaria vaccine

• Palestine: UNCTAD reports deepest economic collapse ever recorded
• Gaza’s women face hunger, repeated displacement and rising disability crisis
• 50,000 women and girls killed by partners or family in 2024: UNODC, UN Women
• Human trafficking: IOM launches global campaign urging stronger survivor support

Audio credit: Katy Dartford, UN News

UN News Today 25 November 2025 - Gaza update, violence against women, human trafficking

• Somalia declares drought emergency as hunger crisis deepens after failed rains
• Ukraine: more than 340 educational facilities damaged or destroyed this year
• Over 600 million children exposed to violence at home, UNICEF warns

Audio credit: Ileana Exaras, UN News

UN News Today 26 November 2025 - Somalia draught, Ukraine update, violence against children

• Jenin: UN “appalled” by apparent summary execution in the West Bank 
• Myanmar: Civilians pressured to return to unsafe areas before junta election
• Measles: WHO warns cases surging worldwide despite major drop in deaths

Audio credit: Katy Dartford, UN News

UN News Today 28 November 2025 - human rights in West Bank, and Myanmar; measles

Thick toxic smog and air quality or AQI levels up to 35 times higher than the World Health Organization (WHO) limits are turning Delhi’s winters into a recurring health emergency. 

Balakrishna Pisupati, head of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) office in India, warns that pollution is “almost reaching the level of a disaster.” 

In an interview with UN News, he cites vehicle emissions, crop burning, industrial activity, construction dust and stagnant winter air as key contributors. 

Despite programmes and investments, progress can feel like “running on a treadmill” due to policy gaps, weak enforcement and little change in behaviour.

UN News’ Anshu Sharma spoke to Mr. Pisupati on how UNEP is addressing India’s air pollution challenge, and the urgent need for coordinated action on fossil fuels and forest conservation.

Audio credit: Anshu Sharma, UN News

India’s air pollution crisis nearing disaster, warns UN official

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