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Week in Review 5 July 2025
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The world's attention shifted to sunny Sevilla, Spain this week, where leaders gathered for the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development – a major summit focused on bridging the $4 trillion gap needed to finance sustainable development. With our special coverage, we take you to the heart of the discussions at this landmark meeting that, despite the sweltering Andalusian heat, delivered renewed momentum and unity.

That same sense of urgency echoed in Geneva, where the UN's top human rights official warned that climate change is not just about the environment – it's also a threat to people's safety, dignity, and lives. He called for faster, fairer action to protect those most at risk.

At the same time, the climate crisis showed its extremes. The northern hemisphere is sweltering under a record-breaking early-summer heatwave, while Argentina and Chile were hit by an unusual polar cold snap, disrupting daily life and essential services.

This week also marked 50 years of the global wildlife trade treaty CITES. New data showed how young people are being shut out of farming, raising real concerns about the future of our food systems. In Vienna, the UN is helping countries harness satellites and space technology for everything from disaster response to climate tracking. Back in New York, the General Assembly approved a $5.4 billion budget for UN peacekeeping for 2025-26, amid warnings that persistent cash shortages could undermine even the best-laid plans.

Multilateralism may be under pressure – but as Sevilla showed, when nations come together around shared solutions, progress is still within reach.

 

The 4th International Conference on Financing for Development came to a close with a call to action on 3 July.
With sustainable development under threat, Sevilla summit rekindles hope and unity

The landmark Financing for Development conference in Sevilla has concluded with a renewed sense of resolve and a focus on action that can change lives worldwide, according to UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed.

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Economic Development
Fossil fuel-powered factories are contributing to climate change.
Human rights can be a 'strong lever for progress' in climate change, says UN rights chief

The UN's top rights official on Monday urged the international community to confront the growing human rights implications of climate change.

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Human Rights
Temperatures across the world continue to rise.
Northern hemisphere heatwave underscores value of early-warning alerts

The blistering early-summer heatwave that's brought life-threatening temperatures across much of the northern hemisphere is a worrying sign of things to come, UN weather experts said on Tuesday.

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Climate and Environment
Temperatures have plummeted across southern South America in a rare polar cold wave. Pictured here, early-morning frost in Argentina.
Chile and Argentina among coldest places on Earth as polar anticyclone grips region

Temperatures across lower South America have plummeted – falling as low as -15° Celsius or 5° Fahrenheit in some places – as a rare polar cold wave grips the region, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) reported on Thursday. 

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Climate and Environment
A Haitian police officer keeps watch while patrolling the streets of Port-au-Prince in an armoured vehcile.
Haitian capital 'paralysed and isolated' by gang violence, Security Council hears

More than 1.3 million people have been displaced in Haiti as surging gang violence, lawlessness, and impunity expose the population – especially women and girls – to heightened risks of exploitation and sexual violence. 

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Law and Crime Prevention
A tiger cools down in a stream on a hot day in the Chitwan National Park, Nepal. The tiger population in the protected forest has rebounded thanks to concerted efforts by the Government and local communities.
50 years of CITES: Protecting wildlife from trade-driven extinction

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) marks 50 years since it entered into force on Tuesday, celebrating five decades of protecting endangered wildlife from overexploitation through international trade.

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Climate and Environment
A young farmer plows a paddy field with buffaloes in Kandal province, Cambodia.
Landless and locked out: Young farmers struggle for a future

Agricultural land is more than just a resource to produce food – for many older adults around the world, a land deed is the only safety net they have as they enter their old age. As a result, they hold onto it tightly.  

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Economic Development
A Zinnia plant pillow floats through the U.S. Destiny Laboratory aboard the International Space Station, which were part of the flowering crop experiment that began on 16 November 2015 by  NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren.
Space is not the final frontier – it is the foundation of our future: UN deputy chief

Space technologies are no longer a distant frontier but a critical foundation for daily life and global development, the UN Deputy Secretary-General said on Wednesday.

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SDGs
A MONUSCO peacekeeper stands guard as a UN helicopter delivers aid to an IDP camp near Ituri, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (file photo)
General Assembly approves $5.4 billion UN peacekeeping budget for 2025-2026

The General Assembly on Monday approved a $5.38 billion budget for UN peacekeeping operations for the 2025-2026 fiscal year, down slightly from the previous year, as delegates wrapped up weeks of negotiations amid warnings about persistent funding challenges.

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