Live blog of world leaders' week at the United Nations, New York - covering the General Assembly and other happenings in and around headquarters
A United Nations security officer stands at the ready during the Secretary-General's bilateral meetings during the General Assembly High-level week. /UN Photo/Manuel ElĂas
It’s lunchtime!
If we could save one fourth of the food currently lost or wasted, we could feed 870 million hungry people worldwide.
More than 3,000 journalists from around the world are expected to cover UNGA 78. Television tents are set up near the Rose Garden of the UN headquarters complex during the week of the General Assembly’s annual general debate and associated high-level meetings.
A gift from All-America Rose Sections, Inc., the garden has over 1,500 rose bushes, each carefully named for places and people from around the world. Expert UN gardeners ensure they bloom year-round.
The garden is open to the public and is located off the Visitor’s Concourse, behind the GA Building.
The SDG Summit plans to get the world back on track towards a greener, cleaner, safer, fairer future for all.
Academy-Award-winning actress and activist Natalie Portman (left) spoke to Melissa Fleming, UN Under-Secretary General for Global Communications, about what it will take to get back on track to achieve gender equality by 2030.
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On the sidelines of the Summit at the SDG Media Zone, Carl Skau of the World Food Programme (right) spoke to the Director of the UN's News and Media Division, Ian Phillips, about the escalating needs faced by the world's hungry: "We are in a situation where our needs are going up and funding are going down and the forecast for '24 looks even more dire. I recently visited Syria. It is heartbreaking meeting women, who told frankly it was better during the war, the bombs were dropping on them, but they had food."
It's the first fully in-person General Assembly session since the pandemic and the media is on hand in the storied GA hall to document the summit. More than 3,000 members of the media have been registered to attend.
Actor and UN advocate Nikolaj Coster-Waldau discusses how to achieve a better world for all.
"The SDGs aren’t just a list of goals. They carry the hopes, dreams, rights and expectations of people everywhere,” said UN Secretary-General António Guterres.
“Yet today, only 15 per cent of the targets are on track. Many are going in reverse. Instead of leaving no one behind, we risk leaving the SDGs behind.”
World leaders today adopted a agreeing to urgently step up their efforts to deliver the SDGs by 2030.
Things are getting busy around UN Headquarters this Monday morning! We've got live cams on the delegation arrivals, check it out on !
We’re kicking things off with the SDG Summit.
The world is lagging behind in the drive to realize the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the agreed 2030 deadline.
The Summit is where the brightest innovators, world leaders, movers and doers are gathering to speed the drive to reach the goalpost.
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