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Mitigating future shocks and building a holistic COVID-19 recovery for borderland communities

Across Chile’s mountains, valleys and coasts, the fingerprints of climate change are becoming more and more evident.

Scientific consensus says we cannot have a healthy planet with a temperature increase higher than 1.5°C (2.7°F). We are already at 1.1°C (2.2°F).
Statement by Achim Steiner, UNDP Administrator
In “Who’s Gonna End?”, Sertab Erener pairs with UNDP to encourage renewed efforts to fight climate change and achieve the Global Goals.
Climate change is not just an environmental phenomenon. It also has significant ramifications for peace, stability and security.
Climate change threatens to undo decades of development progress in Small Island Developing States and least developed countries.
Kyrgyzstan’s updated NDC pledges to aim for greater reduction in greenhouse gas emissions if it receives international support.
An exciting people-centred energy transition is underway in Seychelles, which furthers the country's recently updated NDC.
The summer of 2021 was the fifth warmest summer in Serbia in the last 70 years, with impacts being felt by people across the country.
There is growing awareness of the importance of NDCs, which are central to achieving the objectives of the Paris Agreement on climate change.