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474 sentences in 167 speeches for change
Download CSVBahamas (the) · Philip Edward Davis · Day 4 · 11 sentences
- What the world lacks is not political will for change, it is political change itself.
- A change in who writes the rules.
- A change in whose suffering counts.
- A change in who decides and who pays.
Malta · Robert Abela · Day 4 · 10 sentences
- To change, you have to believe.
- We know we need to change how the United Nations works, how it takes decisions, and how it delivers on the ground.
- But we can only make that change, achieve that transformation, if we believe that change is possible.
- And as this United Nations embarks on its ninth decade of service, the need for a step change in how the international community works together, solves problems together, is arguably needed more acutely now than ever before.
Saint Lucia · Philip J. Pierre · Day 4 · 8 sentences
- Climate change threatens our homes, livelihoods, and very existence.
- For Saint Lucia, climate change is not a distant environmental issue.
- While the world focuses on headline grabbing events like monster hurricanes, melting glaciers, and tidal waves, climate change is affecting Saint Lucia daily in small but significant ways, such as the unusual bouts of drought in the rainy season, unprecedented floods in the dry season, and stifling of our beaches and coastlines by sargassum.
- A United Nations that delivers for all must deliver for those on the front lines of climate change, through accessible finance, concrete support and measurable results, not merely through declarations.
Antigua and Barbuda · Walton Alfonso Webson · Day 6 · 8 sentences
- Climate change is not waiting for the future.
- Whether confronted by climate change, challenging inequalities, or calling for reform, the international financial system, he was a fearless and principled advocate.
- For small island developing states like mine, climate change is not a warning about tomorrow.
- Climate change must never be allowed to erase a nation's sovereignty, its statehood, or the rights of its people.
Viet Nam · To Lam · Day 1 · 7 sentences
- Climate change, natural disasters, pandemics, and emerging technological risk continue to pose direct threats to the lives of the people and their livelihoods, and to the development and stability of many nations.
- What should concern us is not only how the international order is changing, but where that change will take the world.
- Change is inevitable, for it is of the objective course of history.
- The mission of our generation is to help shape and manage change so that competition does not turn into confrontation, differences do not lead to conflict, and advances in science and technology do not create new divides.
Cyprus · Nikos Christodoulides · Day 2 · 7 sentences
- Climate change is reshaping our societies.
- As the world changes, our institutions must be able to respond to new realities and threats while guided by the painful lessons of history and the vision of the founding fathers of this organization.
- This is the purpose of Cyprus's regional initiative on climate change.
- For 52 years, we are experiencing violations of fundamental human rights, the destruction of religious and cultural heritage, and the organized transfer of settlers amounting to demographic change.
Uruguay · Yamandú Orsi · Day 3 · 7 sentences
- But above all We need to restore trust in our collective ability to change things because at its heart, the very idea of well-being and progress springs from something that is profoundly human, that is the ability to recognize suffering and refuse to accept inertia.
- They sense what could be different and then they're able to sense the desire for change.
- And this desire for change is perhaps one of the most profound expressions of our own freedom.
- Our freedom becomes fuller when we are able to expand the freedom of others, when we change our societies through dialogue, when we build fairer institutions, when we undertake significant projects that endure beyond our own lifetimes.
El Salvador · Alexandra Hill Tinoco · Day 6 · 7 sentences
- We are living through an extremely complex era where changes and challenges happen in a matter of seconds.
- These changes, and I think that we've all experienced them, overwhelm us.
- On the contrary, its legitimacy is achieved when the organization is really truly able to preserve and save people's lives and to ensure a decent future for all people and this is something that El Salvador has firsthand experience in Mr. president for decades my small but great country was known for a reality that it seemed impossible to change the scourge of violence was deeply entrenched in our society.
- El Salvador, in a short but historic period of seven years, made strong strides forward to change our reality, recovering our security, our spaces, trust, dignity.
President of the General Assembly (opening) · Dr. Khalilur Rahman · Day 1 · 6 sentences
- Something had to change, and this place was that change.
- and the heartbreaking natural disaster in Nepal and China was not just an isolated event, but yet another horrible climax to our collectively insufficient response to climate change.
- On my first point, we must be frank about where the challenges lie and what needs to be fixed, even when the necessary changes may prove painful.
- As we decide what must change, we must also recognize what already works.
Chile · José Antonio Kast · Day 1 · 6 sentences
- Unemployment is hard and high, but it will change.
- Change will come.
- You will find clear rules that do not change day-to-day.
- Latin America is the continent of the future, and those of us that lead the continent today are ready to give momentum to that change.
Dominica · Sylvanie Burton · Day 1 · 6 sentences
- Climate change is reshaping economies, communities, and entire ecosystems.
- The question before us, therefore, is whether we possess the courage, solidarity, and political will to shape that change and guide our world towards peace, justice, and shared prosperity.
- It is a call for us to build on that progress, strengthen our cooperation, and deliver the meaningful change that our people expect from us.
- When a hurricane destroys our infrastructure, when international energy prices rise, when access to capital becomes more expensive, when global markets change, or when climate finance remains beyond our reach, the consequences are felt immediately in our homes, in our businesses, in our schools and hospitals, and in the very lives of our people.
Czechia · Petr Pavel · Day 2 · 6 sentences
- It reflects both the scale of the changes our world is undergoing and the need to navigate them peacefully.
- Today, however, we are witnessing profound changes that are reshaping the post-war system.
- The task of the international order is not to resist these changes, but to manage them peacefully.
- Our goal should be to prevent war and destruction and to build a predictable international order capable of adapting to change, while providing fairness and stability.
Fiji · Ratu Naiqama Tawakecolati Lalabalavu · Day 3 · 6 sentences
- We face deepening geopolitical rivalry, armed conflict, and climate and environmental crisis, economic uncertainty, disrupted supply chains and rapid technological change, and an information environment corroded by disinformation.
- We have known political upheaval, constitutional change, and periods of deep division.
- We cannot change that history, but we can learn from it.
- For the Pacific, climate change is not a future scenario.
Netherlands (Kingdom of the) · Rob Jetten · Day 3 · 6 sentences
- To start with, here in the UN, improved African representation in the Security Council at the very least, because If we want to preserve the UN for the future, we must change the balance of power in line with the changing times and modernize our institutions.
- And it is also time for us to press forward together and tackle that other great challenge of our time, climate change.
- But in the Caribbean part of our kingdom, including the countries of Aruba, Curacao, and Sint Maarten, the effects of climate change have already been felt for much longer.
- For too long, the consequences of climate change have been trivialized or simply denied.
Australia · Anthony Albanese · Day 3 · 6 sentences
- climate change, emerging technology, and the breakdown of international rules.
- Whether it is climate change or artificial intelligence, there is always the temptation to say that our generation is being confronted by issues that our predecessors could not possibly have imagined while dealing with the world they would not recognise.
- Climate change, where the science foretold of the increase in frequency and intensity of extreme weather events that we are now experiencing.
- To promote the peace, To create a world of human dignity, to do justice to the UN's mission, we must embrace change and we must embrace reform.
Tuvalu · Feleti Teo · Day 4 · 6 sentences
- Climate change is transforming our physical environment.
- Mister President, Climate change is and remains the single greatest existential threat to Tuvalu's survival, security, and sustainable development.
- Mr. President, in the Pacific, Pacific leaders have adopted the Pacific Resilience Facility, a regional financing mechanism to help our communities respond effectively to the growing impact of climate change.
- Mr. President, adaptation and building resilience against the impact of climate change will reduce the severity of climate change, but will not eliminate all consequences of climate change.
North Macedonia · Hristijan Mickoski · Day 4 · 6 sentences
- Climate change will affect economies, agriculture, cities, and the movement of people.
- Demographic change will reshape labor markets and social protection systems.
- For a great power, a mistaken geopolitical calculation may mean a change of a strategy.
- That criteria can change while the process is already underway, or that some are expected to demonstrate consistency that others do not always demand of themselves.
Liechtenstein · Sabine Monauni · Day 4 · 6 sentences
- They want to see positive change for the UN to emerge stronger, more effective, more relevant.
- But we all have to be prepared to be part of the change that we want to see.
- Resisting the temptation of collective inertia and of waiting for positive change to happen on its own will, require our active political investment.
- The steps we have taken are just the beginning of what we need, a political agreement that combines significant structural change with a reliable financial commitment and firm support for the UN Charter from all.
Samoa · Mulipola Anarosa Ale Molioo · Day 4 · 6 sentences
- A world shaped by uncertainty, disruption, and rapid change, but also by hope, innovation, and opportunity.
- Profound and transformative changes are not only necessary, but inevitable.
- Excellencies, climate change remains the single greatest threat to Samoa and the global community.
- As the ICJ advisory opinion puts it, climate change is not merely an environmental concern, but an existential problem of planetary proportion that require urgent global action.
Zambia · Mulambo Hamakuni Haimbe · Day 5 · 6 sentences
- Climate change is reshaping livelihoods.
- Mr. President, I now turn to climate change and environmental resilience water and sanitation.
- For Zambia, climate change is not an abstract concept.
- This is to mitigate the effects of climate change and protect lives and livelihoods.
Vanuatu · Odo Tevi · Day 6 · 6 sentences
- For us, security also means food security, energy security, water security, health security, economic security, cybersecurity, environmental security, and the security of our people from the impacts of climate change.
- A change in global interest rates can increase the cost of borrowing.
- Climate change, damage to the ocean and loss of biodiversity are linked.
- The hosting of the inaugural Melanesian Ocean Summit in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, this year arrives at a critical juncture where, on one hand, we are faced with daily mounting challenges of the detrimental effects of climate change, the alarming degradation of our marine biodiversity, pervasive marine pollution, and the over-exploitation of our vital marine resources.
Brazil · Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva · Day 1 · 5 sentences
- Until recently, the response to climate change was firmly established at the center of the international agenda.
- The Tropical Forest Forever Facility, launched at COP30 in the city of Belen, shows that it is possible to change old paradigms.
- There is a legitimate desire for change throughout the world, but change is not the same as going backwards.
- Change means moving towards a more participatory future and more achievements.
Jordan · Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein · Day 1 · 5 sentences
- The scale of knowledge and the speed of change are unprecedented.
- Economic disparity, food insecurity, climate change disasters.
- Another illusion is that this Israeli leadership's rejection of Palestinian statehood is a position that might yet change.
- When confronted with evidence of wrongdoing, rather than change the course, it opts for distraction, discrediting its critics.
Mongolia · Khurelsukh Ukhnaa · Day 1 · 5 sentences
- It is time for all of us to ponder and reflect with common sense on what progress could have been achieved in the development of human society if these huge budget and funds had been spent on tackling pressing issues such as combating global warming and climate change and improving education, health, food security, and advancement of women and children.
- As a country experiencing the adverse impacts of climate change firsthand, Mongolia has remained steadfast in contributing to global collective efforts to protect and preserve our natural environment.
- It is a comprehensive nationwide initiative aimed at combating desertification and land degradation, scaling up land restoration, expanding forest resources, protecting soil fertility, water resources, and biodiversity, mitigating the adverse impacts of climate change, improving food supply, and creating employment opportunities.
- This initiative is special in raising global awareness that the protection, sustainable management, and restoration of rangelands are of strategic importance for building resilience to climate change, ensuring food security, and maintaining balanced ecosystems.
Republic of Korea · Lee Jae Myung · Day 1 · 5 sentences
- Younger people around the world in particular are facing growing anxiety about their employment and their future as the pace of change becomes increasingly difficult to keep up with.
- Agreements reached at the negotiating table must translate into real change on the ground so that people around the world can feel their impact in their daily lives.
- Mr. President, Mr. Secretary General, and distinguished delegates, when it comes to peace on the Korean Peninsula, the Republic of Korea knows firsthand the change that the United Nations has brought about.
- Fortunately, President Trump's resolve has recently created a hard-won opportunity for change.
Sierra Leone · Julius Maada Bio · Day 1 · 5 sentences
- International law must not change with geography or bend according to the identity of the accused.
- Mr. President, representation becomes meaningful when it changes decisions and improves lives.
- A gas future, like the future of every young person, will be shaped by forces already remaking our world, climate change, artificial intelligence, and the energy transition.
- Climate change presents the same moral question in harsher form.
Morocco · Nasser Bourita · Day 1 · 5 sentences
- Second, addressing climate change and its effects.
- Mr. President, there can be no way to sustain peace and development without effectively addressing the challenge of climate change, which is no longer a future threat.
- Despite its limited contribution to greenhouse gas emissions, Morocco remains among the countries most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change accordingly.
- This effort has extended to the African continent, which suffers from the devastating effects of climate change.
Botswana · Duma Gideon Boko · Day 2 · 5 sentences
- Concurrently, Our world is undergoing transformation driven by technology, climate change, demographic shifts, and changing patterns of economic power.
- Climate change is no longer tomorrow's warning.
- For Botswana, custodian of the Okavango Delta, a UNESCO World Heritage site, and the Kalahari ecosystem, Climate change directly affects livelihoods, water security, and biodiversity.
- The global financial architecture must therefore evolve to reflect the economic realities of the 21st century including financing demands created by climate change, technological transformation, and the imperative for sustainable development.
Papua New Guinea · James Marape · Day 4 · 5 sentences
- At a time when our world has confronted war, displacement, poverty, inequality, climate change, and many other challenges, He has consistently called for peace, human dignity, international cooperation, and respect for the principles of United Nations.
- A person must be free to change his or her belief.
- Mr. President, think about the children of the world, a child born today did not create climate change.
- When climate changes, Communities that have contributed little to global greenhouse gas emissions can nevertheless face rising seas, extreme weather, threats to food security, and damage to livelihoods.
Norway · Espen Barth Eide · Day 4 · 5 sentences
- We support the proposals across all work streams, including structural changes.
- But we also do need structural change.
- But unfortunately, colleagues, too often member states show vested interests, engage themselves in turf battles, and become fearful of change.
- Climate change, biodiversity loss, and rampant pollution threatens life, property, and prosperity everywhere.
Iceland · Thorgerdur Katrín Gunnarsdóttir · Day 5 · 5 sentences
- Russia invaded a sovereign neighbor, seeking to change borders by force, and deny another nation to freedom, to determine its future.
- Conflicts, poverty, Poverty, drought, natural disasters, and the growing effects of climate change are pushing millions of people from their homes.
- Madam President, the same commitment to facts and responsibility must guide us on climate change.
- In Iceland, we can see the changes taking place in our own region, in the Arctic.
Secretary-General of the United Nations · António Guterres · Day 1 · 4 sentences
- The Security Council was designed in the aftermath of World War II, but the world has fundamentally changed since then, a change that is far from reflected in the Security Council.
- This must change.
- If the United Nations can change, so can governments, so can parliaments, so can businesses, so can peace processes, and so can this General Assembly.
- Inequality determines who has the means to face climate change and other shocks and who is left exposed to the dangers.
United States of America · Donald Trump · Day 1 · 4 sentences
- Big changes can happen and happen fast.
- My administration is also seeking a fundamental change in the situation in Cuba, where the communist regime is under great pressure, the biggest pressure they've ever been under.
- Yet the very same people who said we'll all be dead in 12 years because of global warming, and they've since reborn to climate change because the planet was cooling, not warming, and nobody was dead.
- This is the group that came up with the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax, the Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine hoax, climate change, open borders.
Türkiye · Recep Tayyip Erdoğan · Day 1 · 4 sentences
- First and foremost, We are compelled to change the current mindset where international law is applied differently to the strong versus to the weak.
- Air, water and soil, and also many living species, are being affected by climate change.
- Another threat as serious as climate change is the spread of a culture of waste fueled by an incredible desire for consumption.
- As our world changes fast, humanity has concurrently began to face new social threats.
Kyrgyzstan · Sadyr Zhaparov · Day 1 · 4 sentences
- Dear friends, as you know, climate change has become a global challenge.
- Distinguished heads of delegations, continuing the topic of climate change, I would like to draw your attention to another environmental challenge.
- The scale and speed of climate change exceed the capacity of any individual mountain country and require consolidated international action.
- We stand at the threshold of a new era of change.
Trinidad and Tobago · Kamla Persad-Bissessar · Day 1 · 4 sentences
- Mr. President, managing transformation must also mean ensuring that developing developing countries are not simply expected to adjust the changes decided or developed elsewhere.
- Whether in technology and SI, super intelligence, a global economy, or energy development countries must have the opportunity and the capacity to help in shaping those changes.
- For us in Trinidad and Tobago, progress cannot be measured only by how quickly the world changes, but it must also be in terms of who benefits from that change.
- Secretary-General Guterres will be well remembered for leading this organization through a period of extraordinary global strain, and for advancing important initiatives on UN reform, climate change, superintelligence and the risks posed by nuclear weapons.
Paraguay · Santiago Peña Palacios · Day 2 · 4 sentences
- Human dignity, dear friends, does not change when we move from one continent to another.
- And the organization, dear friends, has to change too.
- I'm simply convinced that the only way to change reality and to build a better world is firstly to acknowledge the reality that we face, to confront the problems in front of us.
- Things can change.
Namibia · Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah · Day 2 · 4 sentences
- Namibia continues to face significant climatic changes as a result of climate change, including recurring droughts, rising temperatures, and growing pressure on agriculture and water resources.
- Yet, Namibia contributes less than 0.01% of the global greenhouse gas emission, and it bears disproportionate share of the impact of climate change like other developing countries.
- It is through sustainable climate financing that we will be able to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 13 to combat climate change.
- Against this backdrop, it's very important to focus on water in 2026, particularly as climate change intensifies drought, floods, desiccation, and land degradation across Africa.
Italy · Antonio Tajani · Day 2 · 4 sentences
- Our task cannot be to stand and watch passively the fragmentation of our world, but it must be to build a new framework of rules, responsibility, and cooperation capable of governing change.
- change that can happen only through political will, through dialogue among nations, through the awareness of peoples, and through the ability of multilateral institutions to rediscover a mission equal to the challenges of our time.
- Politics thus must once again take the lead in shaping change.
- Not even a more exclusive club, but one of the pillars of the far-reaching renewal of the United Nations that we hope the new Secretary General will want to pursue, making it capable of deciding and acting while there is still time to change the course of events.
Somalia · Hassan Sheikh Mohamud · Day 3 · 4 sentences
- According to the United Nations, over 40% of the global population are vulnerable to the destructive effects of the climate change.
- Today, we are determined to change that history.
- As an import-dependent country, reliant on the Middle East for much of our food, fuel, trade, Somalia is already facing rising prices, inflation, and increasing transparency and insurance costs, while drought linked to climate change is affecting overall over 6 million people in Somalia.
- Somalia stands ready to work with every member state to reform the Security Council, strengthening cooperation between the United Nations and the African Union, and improve development financing, confront climate change, and build multilateral system that treats every nation and every person with equal dignity.
Portugal · Luís Montenegro · Day 3 · 4 sentences
- Excellencies, we also bear the intergenerational responsibility to accelerate the energy transition in order to reduce dependencies and mitigate the effects of climate change.
- I will share with you that in Portugal, we feel the devastating impacts of climate change firsthand in the increasing forest fires, coastal erosion, and the degradation of marine ecosystems, and also and more frequently in extreme weather events, new such as storms, high winds, and flash floods.
- We maintain close collaboration and continued support for countries that are particularly vulnerable to climate change.
- Climate change and freedom of navigation share a common priority of our policy, the sea and ocean.
Kiribati · Taneti Maamau · Day 4 · 4 sentences
- Inequality remains entrenched, while climate change places additional pressure on communities already confronting significant development challenges.
- The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Sixth Assessment Report reinforces the urgency of these challenges, and particularly the risk faced by small island states.
- Kiribati recognizes the importance of international law in addressing climate change.
- The International Court of Justice advisory opinion on climate change advances climate justice by affirming that all states have binding duties to protect the climate system and achieve deep, rapid, and sustained greenhouse gas reductions consistent with limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
Lesotho · Samuel Ntsokoane Matekane · Day 4 · 4 sentences
- During his term, the world confronted unprecedented challenges, from the COVID-19 pandemic to the eruption of new conflicts, the catastrophic effects of climate change, and unstable trade regimes throughout this crisis.
- Mr. President, we must acknowledge that climate change is no longer a future threat, but a present reality.
- Further, we urge developed countries to transfer environmentally sound technology and to strengthen capacity of developing countries to effectively mitigate and adapt to the adverse effects of climate change.
- Just energy transition is therefore an imperative if humanity is to be spared from the terrible threat of climate change.
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · Godwin Friday · Day 4 · 4 sentences
- We in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines experience firsthand the vulnerability of living on the front lines of climate change.
- Mr. President, for small island developing states, climate change is not a distant forecast.
- When the continent from which our enslaved ancestors were taken and the islands to which they were brought in change, in chains, spoke in one voice, this chamber listened.
- With necessary changes in the organization and in the mindset of those of us who shape its work, the United Nations will live up to its name.
Germany · Johann Wadephul · Day 5 · 4 sentences
- When a technology has the power to fundamentally change the world, possibly even determine the fate of humanity, we need to ask who controls it, who sets the rules, who is accountable.
- Engineers have developed a technology that does not need to be launched from a rocket or a submarine to change the course of history.
- Together with all those who are willing to do so, we will continue our work to address human-made climate change and its devastating effects swiftly and effectively.
- The technologies may change, but one principle will remain.
Belarus · Maxim Ryzhenkov · Day 5 · 4 sentences
- More and more voices are saying that the UN is not working in the interests of all and is incapable of managing change.
- Western elites do not like the new multipolar world in which their voice is no longer decisive, but instead of adapting to positive changes, they continue to exploit instability.
- But if the West wants to take its rightful place in the emerging multipolar world, it must change.
- No, it does not correspond to today's realities, it cannot keep up with change and it is not reforming significantly.
Burkina Faso · Karamoko Jean Marie Traoré · Day 6 · 4 sentences
- And it's an admission that our organization is struggling to adapt to the changes The huge changes that we're seeing of a world in constant evolution and an admission that our organization, unfortunately, is no longer there for everyone, but belongs more and more to actors chosen according to their power and their vested interests.
- This historic recognition, which is part of a noble process, must open the way to truth, memory, reparation, and real change in the international dynamics that we inherited from slavery and colonization.
- The Relance 2026-2030 plan, in this regard, is a major framework to deliver this approach and to support the changes that are currently underway in our country.
- These changes are being delivered specifically by winning back several villages and areas, the progressive return of thousands of people to their places of residence, the reopening of tens of schools, as well as returning to normal activity in healthcare centers and progressive reinstallation of the government.
Sri Lanka · Vijitha Herath · Day 6 · 4 sentences
- Mr. President, seminal changes are taking place across the world at a pace faster than many institutions are able to adapt or respond.
- Two years ago, marking a watershed moment in our history, the people of Sri Lanka, representing all communities and walks of life, gave a resounding mandate to the government of President M. W. Wickremesinghe to address these challenges and institute meaningful change.
- These tragic events demonstrate the enormous human and economic cost of climate change.
- Mr. President, Managing transformation cannot mean managing change for some while asking others merely to adapt to its consequences.
Japan · Takaichi Sanae · Day 1 · 3 sentences
- Any attempts to unilaterally change the status quo by force or coercion are contrary to the principles enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations and must never be tolerated anywhere in the world.
- Since becoming a member state of the United Nations in 1956, Japan has acted decisively to address global challenges such as eradication of poverty, economic and social development, women's empowerment, climate change, and global health.
- Japan aims to further deepen our collaboration with the Pacific Island countries region and promote the stability and prosperity of the region, including addressing common challenges such as maritime security and climate change.
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland · Andy Burnham · Day 1 · 3 sentences
- That is the level of ambition that we need now to renew the UN for our times, to tackle challenges like improving global health and preventing future pandemics, to end the wars that are causing so much suffering and instability, including the terrible conflict in Sudan, and to tackle climate change.
- and we need to give people the support they need through this change, ensuring that it becomes an engine for reindustrialisation and opportunity as well.
- The best change is change like that, bottom-up change led by people.
Croatia · Andrej Plenković · Day 1 · 3 sentences
- The world is being transformed by technology, climate change, demographic pressures, illegal migration, and geopolitical rivalry.
- Our responsibility is to govern them so that change expands human freedom and security instead of weakening them.
- Let us therefore rebuild trust by defending our common compass and managing change so that it strengthens human dignity.
Belgium · Maxime Prévot · Day 1 · 3 sentences
- We depend on states keeping their word, on agreements surviving changes in the balance of power, and on borders not being redrawn at gunpoint.
- Sovereignty, territorial integrity, and the right of peoples to determine their own future do not change meaning when we cross the borders of a continent.
- A person's legal status may change.
Dominican Republic · Luis Rodolfo Abinader Corona · Day 2 · 3 sentences
- For a small island country, climate change is not an abstract matter, ladies and gentlemen.
- We will not tire in calling for climate change to be delivered as quickly as storms strike the Caribbean.
- As changes in the conditions of human existence occur with such speed that we no longer need to wait decades before they become part of history.
Montenegro · Jakov Milatović · Day 2 · 3 sentences
- Climate change is testing the resilience of states and of societies, and artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies are creating risks at a speed that national frameworks alone cannot adequately address.
- Climate change demands the same long-term responsibility.
- But climate change is also a question of global fairness, because those who have contributed the least to this crisis are too often the first and hardest hit by its consequences.
Andorra · Xavier Espot Zamora · Day 2 · 3 sentences
Democratic Republic of the Congo · Judith Suminwa Tuluka · Day 2 · 3 sentences
- And yet the institutions charged with managing these changes too often reflect an order that no longer exists.
- Any change to its presence must be determined by the conditions of security on the ground, the strengthening of national capacity, and the guarantee that no vacuum of power will remain to the detriment of populations.
- It would be both unjust and dangerous for added value, jobs, know-how, and technologies to remain concentrated far away from the communities that are making these changes possible.
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) · Rodrigo Paz Pereira · Day 3 · 3 sentences
- which decided to engage in a change and a transformation and to not turn back to the past.
- They want to build our nation and want to be part of the United Nations as a concept of United Nations so that we can cooperate, work together, and to be firm in that conviction to be able to carry out a form of transformation and bring change to our work as a nation.
- And we must debate that and discuss it because changes, digitalization is changing things very rapidly and changing our ability to understand what is happening in our countries.
Hungary · András Bálint Baka · Day 3 · 3 sentences
- They expected more than a change of government.
- They expect public life to change, rule of law, a state that serves rather than controls, courts that decide without pressure, a press that challenges power, and public money that is used for public goods.
- Climate change is making these pressures greater.
Gambia (Republic of The) · Mohammed Jallow · Day 3 · 3 sentences
- Sometimes it can change the course of a nation.
- The absence of education, healthcare, decent employment, and the loss of homes and livelihoods to climate change leave communities as vulnerable as conflict itself.
- Mr. President, Climate change presents another test of our collective credibility, and for the government, it is not a distant threat.
Barbados · Mia Amor Mottley · Day 3 · 3 sentences
Bangladesh · Tarique Rahman · Day 3 · 3 sentences
- We aspire to a peaceful world, a humane global community, where rather than weapons of destruction, reason and debate, diplomacy, education and humanity become the instruments of change.
- Mr. President, Bangladesh is one of the countries most vulnerable to the adverse impacts of climate change.
- Although Bangladesh has contributed little to global carbon emissions, it is bearing the adverse consequences of climate change.
Greece · Kyriakos Mitsotakis · Day 3 · 3 sentences
Nepal · Balendra Shah · Day 3 · 3 sentences
- A warming climate that is destabilizing the fragile Himalayan ecology, melting permafrost that are fracturing mountains, slopes, beneath the glaciers and accelerating the risk of ice rock avalanche floods landslides and other cascading hazards the resulting devastated the resulting Devastation unleashed Havoc on both sides of Nepal China border the flood continued Downstream to the India this tells of us something fundamental climate change does not recognize borders glaciers and floods do not travel with stamps and passports excellencies I'm not here to complain, but to share some suggestions.
- We are not here to turn climate change into another geopolitical battlefield.
- Through the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the international community has already agreed to the principle of common differentiated responsibility and respective capabilities.
Maldives · Hussain Mohamed Latheef · Day 4 · 3 sentences
Solomon Islands · Matthew Cooper Wale · Day 4 · 3 sentences
- Mr. President, year after year, Pacific leaders have stood at this podium and urged the world to act on climate change.
- The pre-COP31 meeting to be hosted in the Pacific by Australia in partnership with Fiji and Tuvalu will bring the reality of climate change directly into the heart of the global process.
- Solomon Islands reaffirms that maritime boundaries, once established and deposited in accordance with UNCLOS, together with the rights and entitlements that flow from them shall continue to apply, notwithstanding any physical changes caused by climate change related sea level rise.
Niger · Lamine Zeine Ali Mahaman · Day 4 · 3 sentences
- It is a profound lusting irrepressible and irreversible change, inshallah.
- A change which, by trimming the sharp claws of imperialism, abolishing the trade in black persons and slavery, overthrowing colonialism and neocolonialism, is bringing the peoples of Africa towards independence, sovereignty and liberty.
- This change is a radical break with the policies imposed from outside, which were disconnected from the real needs of the population.
Tonga · Lord Fakafanua · Day 4 · 3 sentences
China · Han Zheng · Day 5 · 3 sentences
- Mr. President, colleagues, the world is witnessing intertwined changes and turbulence, protracted geopolitical conflicts, widening development gaps, and a growing number of global challenges.
- It should effectively address global challenges, including climate change and public health security, improve and increase the representation and voice of the Global South.
- It has mobilized over 23 billion US dollars and carried out more than 2,000 projects under the Global Development Initiative, and it has granted zero-tariff status to all the African countries and LDCs having diplomatic relations with it to empower the Global South in pursuing modernization China has been a progressive force in an era of change China has always spoken up for the Global South stood up for the legitimate rights and interests of developing countries and continued to work toward a more just and equitable global governance system.
Belize · John Briceño · Day 5 · 3 sentences
Cuba · Bruno Eduardo Rodríguez Parrilla · Day 5 · 3 sentences
- And on this basis, we are moving forward on a process of changes that would lead to profound transformations of the economic and social model of the country based on our historical experience.
- And in the current situation, we promise to take the changes that are needed for the moment under the leadership of the party in a collective and democratic way, in consultation with the people, without compromising the independence, national sovereignty, or the social achievements of the revolution."
- and we warn against the worrying and inexorable advance of climate change.
Brunei Darussalam · Prince 'Abdul Mateen · Day 5 · 3 sentences
- At a time of profound transformation, rebuilding confidence among nations lets us confront change and uncertainty together.
- It means equipping ourselves to face the world that is emerging, from conflicts and climate change to sustainable development and emerging technologies.
- That means equipping our people with the knowledge and skills to adapt to change.
San Marino · Luca Beccari · Day 5 · 3 sentences
- Climate change increased pressure on food, water, and community.
- The triple planetary crisis, climate change, biodiversity, loss and pollution is already affecting peace and security.
- No country can address today's challenge alone, protect itself from climate change alone, prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons alone, or regulate global technology alone.
Gabon · Marie-Édith Tassyla-Ye-Doumbeneny · Day 5 · 3 sentences
- Armed conflicts are becoming more protracted, geopolitical tensions are intensifying, inequalities persist, climate change is accelerating and humanitarian emergencies are multiplying.
- Mr. President, restoring trust depends above all on concrete action that enables us to address together global challenges relating to peace and security, climate change, sustainable development and pandemics.
- Ladies and gentlemen, managing transformation as the theme of our session calls on us to do, also means knowing how to guide change at the national level.
Malawi · George Chapatula Chaponda · Day 6 · 3 sentences
- However, our efforts are continually outpaced by the scale and speed of climate change.
- Climate changes and existential threat to Malawi's development and to the hard won gains we have made.
- On the global stage, we view with great alarm the proliferation of violent conflicts and constitutional changes of government, geopolitical fragmentation, and acts of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, and related intolerance.
New Zealand · Victoria Louise Hallum · Day 6 · 3 sentences
- With significant changes in the global development cooperation landscape, we ask you to ensure that the UN is clear about where its comparative advantage lies.
- President, as Pacific Island Forum leaders recently reaffirmed in Palau, Climate change remains the single greatest threat to the livelihoods, security, and wellbeing of Pacific peoples.
- We must ask whether we have the collective will to change our behaviour.
Grenada · Ingrid Jackson · Day 6 · 3 sentences
- Small island developing states should not be viewed simply as victims of climate change.
- Our vulnerabilities are shaped by exposure to climate change, natural disasters, external economic shocks, and other circumstances that cannot adequately be captured through income per capita.
- Transformation gives us the power to change.
Benin · Marc Hermanne Gninadoou Araba · Day 6 · 3 sentences
- They must accelerate their development and at the same time fund their energy transition as well as adapt to climate change, on top of investing in health, education, the digital sphere, and meeting growing social needs.
- Africa contributes relatively little to global greenhouse gas emissions, and yet we are already bearing the full brunt of climate change.
- The climate will continue to change.
France · Emmanuel Macron · Day 1 · 2 sentences
Angola · João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço · Day 1 · 2 sentences
- We highlight his exemplary contribution as a man of dialogue an advocate of the United Nations Charter and international law, a tireless advocate of the need to protect the planet from harmful effects of climate change, and a champion of the global debate on global governance of artificial intelligence.
- These challenges are inherently complex and further exacerbated by climate change, which has a severe impact on Africa with severe and prolonged droughts, floods, desertification, food insecurity and population displacement.
Switzerland · Guy Parmelin · Day 1 · 2 sentences
- climate change and the increase in the number of disasters, humanitarian crises, inequalities, and also technological upheavals, notably artificial intelligence, which are often advancing faster than our collective ability to assess their implications.
- Certain changes are so far reaching and so fast moving that no single state can manage all of their consequences by itself.
Seychelles · Mathew Antonio Patrick Herminie · Day 1 · 2 sentences
Naoero · David Ranibok Adeang · Day 1 · 2 sentences
Estonia · Alar Karis · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Libya · Mohamed Younis Menfi · Day 2 · 2 sentences
- That threat stems from the nexus of terrorism, organized crime, poverty, climate change, displacement, and migration, and from the widening of the cycle of armed conflict in the region.
- Temporary deals cannot do so, nor can fragile settlements that collapse whenever the balance of power shifts or loyalties change.
Serbia · Aleksandar Vučić · Day 2 · 2 sentences
- Excellencies, peace is not the only test of our ability to manage change.
- the sovereign equality of states, respect for territorial integrity, the prohibition of the use of force except in the cases expressly provided for in the UN Charter, and the obligation not to change the rules from one case to another.
Mozambique · Daniel Francisco Chapo · Day 2 · 2 sentences
- At the same time, Your Excellency, the digital revolution, the demographic changes, and the organization of the value chains are transforming our economies every day and the society at an unprecedented pace.
- For Mozambique, as one of the countries that is more vulnerable in the world, climate change, they translate into losses in life, displaced families, destroyed crops, and damaged infrastructures cyclically.
Eswatini · King Mswati III · Day 2 · 2 sentences
- However, we are concerned by the continued incidence of unconstitutional changes of government, which run counter to the values and principles enshrined in the charters of the United Nations the African Union, and the regional economic blocs.
- Parallel to health, security is the fundamental crisis of climate change, which is another defining challenge of our generation.
Honduras · Nasry Juan Asfura Zablah · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) · Delcy Eloína Rodríguez Gómez · Day 2 · 2 sentences
- This is a process of political, economic and spiritual change and a time of structural reforms to ensure Venezuela's rebirth, the rebirth of our nation and our people.
- And here, I ask for the support of the international community so that it in good faith supports the changes that Venezuela requires.
Uzbekistan · Saida Mirziyoyeva · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Madagascar · Michaël Randrianirina · Day 3 · 2 sentences
- The most vulnerable populations affected repeatedly or continuously by health crises, food insecurity and hunger, the impacts of climate change and conflicts exacerbated by current geopolitical tensions, sometimes come to feel a certain skepticism regarding our collective capacity within the United Nations system to respond to the scourges of our age.
- Faced with these recurring humanitarian emergencies, amplified by climate change, considerable investments are made reflecting the unwavering commitment of our development partners, working every year towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, the SDGs, whether that be fighting hunger, providing education or providing access to basic services for vulnerable populations.
Ghana · John Dramani Mahama · Day 3 · 2 sentences
Nigeria · Kashim Shettima · Day 3 · 2 sentences
Kuwait · Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah · Day 3 · 2 sentences
- We would be remiss not to applaud the efforts, good offices, and initiatives of the Secretary-General aimed at strengthening multilateralism and that include initiatives such as UN80 and the Pact for the Future, as well as the ongoing efforts to address global challenges, crises, conflicts, wars, climate change, and terrorism, as well as the efforts to assist member states in order to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and to strengthen international cooperation on artificial intelligence.
- In this context, we emphasize that Security Council reform and the Security Council is the body charged with maintaining international peace and security has become essential to keep pace with the significant increase in the number of member states and the changes in international relations since the establishment of the organization.
Lebanon · Nawaf Salam · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- Climate change threatens the lives and livelihoods of millions.
- The truth is that we cannot call on the states of the world to change their conduct while failing to make the necessary changes within our own organization so that it delivers the results expected of it and regains the trust of the peoples of the world.
Monaco · Christophe Mirmand · Day 4 · 2 sentences
Kazakhstan · Mukhtar Tileuberdi · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- Climate change, biodiversity loss, land degradation, and the growing frequency of natural disaster are placing increasing pressure on our societies and economies.
- Distinguished delegates, artificial intelligence and rapid technological change present another area where urgent international cooperation is needed.
Mauritius · Dhananjay Ramful · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- We welcome the landmark unanimous advisory opinion of the ICJ on the obligations of states in respect of climate change.
- We call for the full operationalization of this advisory opinion, including through the follow-up action requested by this Assembly, in accordance with the UN General Assembly landmark resolution of the 20th of May 2026, welcoming the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the obligations of states in respect of climate change.
Guatemala · Carlos Ramiro Martínez Alvarado · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- Climate change, pandemics, transnational organized crime, food insecurity, human mobility and technological transformation all demand cooperation.
- A country particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change knows that adaptation, risk management and the protection of rural livelihoods require national efforts, but also financing and cooperation commensurate with the needs, capable of building capacity and delivering results.
Sweden · Maria Malmer Stenergard · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- Mr. President, reducing emissions to curb climate change is a common and global challenge and is necessary to safeguard and increase development gains in the coming decades.
- Given the state of the world, changes are necessary to ensure the UN's central role in international affairs and its ability to address today's challenges.
Micronesia (Federated States of) · Aren Palik · Day 5 · 2 sentences
Cabo Verde · Francisco Avelino Vieira de Carvalho · Day 5 · 2 sentences
- Excellencies, learning also means embracing change.
- The 2030 agenda, the African Union's Agenda 2063, and the Pact for the Future point us in one clear direction, sustainable development centered on the people capable of transforming global commitments into concrete changes in the lives of populations.
Republic of Moldova · Vasile Tofan · Day 5 · 2 sentences
Cambodia · Sokhonn Prak · Day 5 · 2 sentences
- Concurrently, geopolitical rivalries, climate change, widening inequalities, rapid technological transformation, and transnational threat are placing growing strain on international peace, stability.
- Mr. President, the question is no longer whether our world is changing, but whether we can shape that change together and turn transformation into opportunities rather than division and insecurity.
Djibouti · Abdoulkader Houssein Omar · Day 5 · 2 sentences
Jamaica · Kamina Johnson Smith · Day 5 · 2 sentences
Sao Tome and Principe · Ilza Maria dos Santos Amado Vaz · Day 5 · 2 sentences
- Excellencies, we live in a context marked by conflicts geopolitical rivalries, economic uncertainty, climate change, forced displacement, inequalities, transnational crime, and rapid technological transformation.
- Mr. President, for small island developing states, geographic, economic, financial, and social vulnerabilities are compounded by the effects of climate change.
Mali · Abdoulaye Diop · Day 6 · 2 sentences
Congo · Constant Serge Bounda · Day 6 · 2 sentences
- The ambitions of our development at the Republic of the Congo and many other African countries are impeded by the burden of debt, inequalities in the international financial system, and the consequences of climate change.
- The Congo Basin is one of Africa's principal contributions to the fight against climate change.
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea · Kim Son Gyong · Day 6 · 2 sentences
Denmark · Christina Markus Lassen · Day 6 · 2 sentences
Costa Rica · Boris Vasir Marchegiani Carrero · Day 6 · 2 sentences
President of the General Assembly (closing) · Dr. Khalilur Rahman · Day 6 · 2 sentences
Finland · Alexander Stubb · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Luxembourg · Guillaume of Luxembourg · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Suriname · Jennifer Geerlings-Simons · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Bosnia and Herzegovina · Denis Bećirović · Day 1 · 1 sentence
United Republic of Tanzania · Deogratius Ndejembi · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Latvia · Edgars Rinkēvičs · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Burundi · Évariste Ndayishimiye · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Timor-Leste · José Ramos-Horta · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Palau · Surangel Whipps · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Bulgaria · Iliana Iotova · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Central African Republic · Faustin Archange Touadera · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Panama · José Raúl Mulino Quintero · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Poland · Karol Nawrocki · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Slovakia · Peter Pellegrini · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Kenya · William Samoei Ruto · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Rwanda · Justin Nsengiyumva · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Palestine (State of) · Mahmoud Abbas · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Guyana · Mohamed Irfaan Ali · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Comoros · Azali Assoumani · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Liberia · Joseph Nyuma Boakai · Day 3 · 1 sentence
European Union · António Costa · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Equatorial Guinea · Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Colombia · José Manuel Restrepo · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Côte d’Ivoire · Tiémoko Meyliet Koné · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Armenia · Nikol Pashinyan · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Thailand · Anutin Charnvirakul · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Georgia · Irakli Kobakhidzhe · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Ireland · Micheál Martin · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Austria · Beate Meinl-Reisinger · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Qatar · · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Iraq · Ali Falih Al-Zaidi · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Marshall Islands · Hilda Heine · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Pakistan · Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Haiti · Alix Didier Fils-Aimé · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Guinea-Bissau · Ilídio Vieira Té · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Egypt · Moustafa Kamal Madbouly · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Saint Kitts and Nevis · Geoffrey Hanley · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Azerbaijan · Jeyhun Aziz oglu Bayramov · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Chad · Abdelmadjid Abdelrahim Mahamat · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Holy See · Cardinal Pietro Parolin · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Lao People’s Democratic Republic · Thongsavanh Phomvihane · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Singapore · Vivian Balakrishnan · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Tajikistan · Sirojiddin Muhriddin · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Tunisia · Mohamed Ali Nafti · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Canada · Anita Anand · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Cameroon · Lejeune Mbella Mbella · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Eritrea · Osman Saleh Mohammed · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Algeria · Ahmed Attaf · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Sudan · Mohieldin Salim Ahmed Ibrahim · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Turkmenistan · Vepa Hajiyev · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Thailand · · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Iran (Islamic Republic of) · · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Japan · · Day 6 · 1 sentence
United Arab Emirates · · Day 6 · 1 sentence