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631 sentences in 151 speeches for climate
Download CSVTuvalu · Feleti Teo · Day 4 · 18 sentences
- Climate change is transforming our physical environment.
- Fifthly, it calls for accessible, predictable, and needs-based climate finance.
- Mister President, Climate change is and remains the single greatest existential threat to Tuvalu's survival, security, and sustainable development.
- Tuvalu acknowledges the efforts of the international community to address the climate crisis, but the pace and scale of global actions remain insufficient.
Vanuatu · Odo Tevi · Day 6 · 16 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 crisis in international development finance can delay a school, a hospital, a road or a climate resilience project.
- We cannot absorb indefinitely the economic consequences of external shocks, and we cannot protect our people from a changing climate without a meaningful international cooperation.
- Therefore, when we speak about climate finance, development finance, disaster resilience, and sustainable development, we are not asking merely for charity.
Solomon Islands · Matthew Cooper Wale · Day 4 · 15 sentences
- Your unwavering advocacy on climate action and your repeated visits to our region told the world a simple truth, that the Pacific matters and that our challenges and how the world responds to them remain a litmus test for this organization and for us all.
- Mr. President, year after year, Pacific leaders have stood at this podium and urged the world to act on climate change.
- That is money our essential services urgently need, now diverted to deal with the impacts of this climate extreme.
- Last year, the International Court of Justice confirmed in its landmark advisory opinion that states have legal obligations to protect the climate system.
Nepal · Balendra Shah · Day 3 · 14 sentences
- Nearly three years ago, standing in the shadow of our Mount Everest, the Secretary General of United Nations warned humanity about the madness and impending climate disaster.
- 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.
- For Nepal, climate catastrophe is not just a humanitarian event, but a development emergency.
- We are not here to turn climate change into another geopolitical battlefield.
Zambia · Mulambo Hamakuni Haimbe · Day 5 · 14 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.
- Zambia recognizes that countries such as ours cannot finance the climate transition alone, nor should they.
Antigua and Barbuda · Walton Alfonso Webson · Day 6 · 13 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.
- Deep geopolitical divisions will exist, financial constraints, the climate emergency, and declining trust will test our organization's capacity to respond.
- Excellencies, nowhere is the urgency greater than in the climate crisis.
Micronesia (Federated States of) · Aren Palik · Day 5 · 12 sentences
- At the same time, we recognize the continuing and growing challenges of climate change, ocean degradation, pollution, and growing inequality.
- Mr. President and Excellencies, today's security landscape is not only by conflict, but by climate-driven fragility.
- For Micronesia, climate impact are a national concern.
- We must respond by implementing science-based emission reductions, scale up national climate commitments, and accelerate transition to renewable energy.
Malawi · George Chapatula Chaponda · Day 6 · 12 sentences
- The current international financial architecture forces developing nations to choose between servicing predatory debts and investing in health, education, and climate resilience.
- The second opportunity is strengthening climate action resilience.
- Mr. President, Malawi contributes negligibly to global greenhouse gas emissions, yet we remain on the front line of the climate crisis.
- As such, we are fighting back by embedding climate resilience into our national development planning and strengthening locally-driven adaptation measures.
Dominica · Sylvanie Burton · Day 1 · 11 sentences
- Climate change is reshaping economies, communities, and entire ecosystems.
- 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.
- We have chosen not only to adapt to climate change, but to demonstrate what a climate-resilient economy and country can look like.
- Mr. President, Dominica has long spoken of becoming the world's first climate resilient nation.
Barbados · Mia Amor Mottley · Day 3 · 11 sentences
- The climate crisis is accelerating.
- We understand enough about the climate crisis to reduce the emissions that are warming our planet and take the necessary steps for our populations to adapt.
- From climate and security and illicit armed armed flows.
- For us, this is as important a battle as the climate crisis.
Netherlands (Kingdom of the) · Rob Jetten · Day 3 · 10 sentences
- 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.
- The climate crisis will not just disappear if we pretend it doesn't exist.
Tonga · Lord Fakafanua · Day 4 · 10 sentences
- We cannot keep negotiating climate, biodiversity, and the ocean in separate COPs when they are clearly an interconnected ecosystem requiring integrated and coherent solutions.
- We call on global processes to recognize the ocean climate nexus and address these interconnected challenges together.
- Protecting and restoring them builds our climate resilience.
- On climate, the Pacific is already drowning in a crisis, a crisis that others continue to postpone addressing.
Secretary-General of the United Nations · António Guterres · Day 1 · 9 sentences
- And the climate crisis went from distant warning to daily reality, and artificial intelligence moved at a speed that has blindsided even those who created it.
- The power fueling climate chaos and war on nature.
- Excellencies, the third great power test is the climate crisis.
- And the climate crisis demands the same determination.
Kiribati · Taneti Maamau · Day 4 · 9 sentences
- Inequality remains entrenched, while climate change places additional pressure on communities already confronting significant development challenges.
- Mr. President, The sustainability of our ocean and fisheries is closely linked to the changing climate and the pressures we face on our marine resources are increasingly compounded by its impact.
- Climate remains one of the most pressing challenges to our development and the way of life.
- The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Sixth Assessment Report reinforces the urgency of these challenges, and particularly the risk faced by small island states.
Lesotho · Samuel Ntsokoane Matekane · Day 4 · 9 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, the theme for this session, Restoring Trust, Managing Transformation, a United Nations that Delivers for All, resonates deeply with Lesotho's aspirations for a more inclusive, transparent, and result-oriented multilateral system, capable of advancing respect, for international law, maintaining global peace and security, accelerating sustainable development, protecting human rights, driving climate action, and implementing long overdue institutional reforms.
- Mr. President, we must acknowledge that climate change is no longer a future threat, but a present reality.
- Despite contributing minimally to global greenhouse gas emissions, least developed countries like Lesotho bear a heavy brunt of climate impact.
Djibouti · Abdoulkader Houssein Omar · Day 5 · 9 sentences
- Mr. President, the climate emergency is one of the most pressing challenges facing our international community.
- Djibouti, like many developing countries, makes only a marginal contribution to global emissions, yet remains particularly exposed to the consequences of climate disruption.
- Those countries that have contributed least to climate change are often those that suffer its most severe consequences.
- We must therefore accelerate the implementation of the Paris Agreement and strengthen our adaptation and resilience efforts, including through resilient coastal infrastructure, better protection for marine and coastal ecosystems, early warning systems, and simplified, predictable, and equitable access to climate finance.
United Republic of Tanzania · Deogratius Ndejembi · Day 1 · 8 sentences
- Today, war and insecurity are not only existential threats to our survival, but a range of challenges, including climate change, pandemics, un-governed artificial intelligence, and energy insecurity, just to mention a few.
- Tanzania stresses that improvements must be made to ensure expansion of concessional financing, mobilization of private investment, improved access to development and climate finance, and giving developing countries a stronger voice in the global financial decision-making.
- Excellencies, our efforts to address climate-related challenges continue to face unjustifiable obstacles, mainly from those contributing significantly to greenhouse gas emissions.
- Global efforts to address climate challenges are being frustrated by withdrawal of financial contributions, supporting climate adaptation measures and initiatives by international and regional institutions, as well as individual states.
Morocco · Nasser Bourita · Day 1 · 8 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 national effort forms part of an international commitment to climate action.
Palau · Surangel Whipps · Day 2 · 8 sentences
- Your climate leadership, steadfast defense of multilateralism, international law, human dignity, and the voices of the vulnerable carries a special meaning for small island developing states.
- I stand before this assembly for a people whose future depends on a healthy ocean and a stable climate, and the sovereign right to determine their own path.
- Small island states, young people, scientists, civil society, indigenous communities, and responsible partners have already raised climate ambition, accelerated the shift to renewable energy, and exposed the true cost of inaction.
- Those who contributed the least to this climate crisis yet confront the worst threats of rising sea levels must not be burdened with debt simply to purchase a life jacket for their survival.
Democratic Republic of the Congo · Judith Suminwa Tuluka · Day 2 · 8 sentences
- During a decade marked by wars, the pandemic, climate emergencies, and exacerbated geopolitical tensions, he constantly defended peace, human dignity, and international cooperation.
- Digital revolution, energy transition, and climate dysregulation are now altering equilibria.
- It is also vital when it comes to climate disruptions, whose effects are already putting our societies under growing pressure.
- It is home to a vital part of the Congo Basin, which is one of the planet's greatest climate regulators.
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.
- Saint Lucia calls for climate finance that matches the scale of the crisis.
Saint Kitts and Nevis · Geoffrey Hanley · Day 4 · 8 sentences
- We are also strengthening food security to climate smart support for farmers and healthcare to our locally developed national digital health information system at the Joseph N. Franz General Hospital.
- Yet, even as we advance, the climate crisis is moving the goal post.
- Mister President, climate induced sea level, rise must never erase a state's international legal personality.
- Saint Kitts and Nevis welcome the International Court of Justice, advisory opinion on states climate obligations.
Türkiye · Recep Tayyip Erdoğan · Day 1 · 7 sentences
- We are maintaining our efforts with the relevant actors to bring an end to the climate of conflict and to the climate of war that has been ignited in the Gulf.
- But our world stands on the threshold of serious environmental and climate-related threats.
- Air, water and soil, and also many living species, are being affected by climate change.
- While developing countries and the Pacific region are experiencing the climate crisis to their very core, they unfortunately face serious difficulties in accessing the funding they need.
Kyrgyzstan · Sadyr Zhaparov · Day 1 · 7 sentences
- Dear friends, as you know, climate change has become a global challenge.
- The average temperature of our planet and the number of climate-related emergencies are rising rapidly, while the negative impact on energy, agriculture, food security and the economy as a whole has reached a significant scale.
- I believe it is extremely important and necessary to unite international efforts in addressing climate challenges and the problems facing mountainous regions.
- Therefore, Kyrgyzstan stands fully ready to serve with the United Nations as the voice of small and developing countries in addressing the climate-related challenges affecting mountainous regions.
France · Emmanuel Macron · Day 1 · 7 sentences
- Every speaker has described the return of imperialism, of arrogance, the return of unrestrained force which knows no rules, a world in which we see power concentrated in the hands of the few, a world in which some believe that they can undermine the international order so as to push their borders outwards, those that believe that people's sovereignty can be toppled over, that they could use that sovereignty, people who believe that they can decide the fate of the planet, whether that be as regards the climate or AI.
- I talked about the climate.
- However, we need the North and the South to reconcile so that they can tackle climate, health, development challenges.
- And in a similar fashion, we must not yield on the climate and biodiversity.
Madagascar · Michaël Randrianirina · Day 3 · 7 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.
- Multilateralism is a privileged forum where states unite in a shared responsibility, enabling them to define common and appropriate solutions in the face of challenges such as epidemics and climate disasters, or armed conflicts arising from contemporary geopolitical rivalries and latent multidimensional tensions.
- The United Nations should therefore take into account the multidimensional vulnerability index so that access to concessional financing reflex climate shocks and external debt burdens.
Somalia · Hassan Sheikh Mohamud · Day 3 · 7 sentences
- At the same time, the climate crisis continues to destroy lives livelihoods, and public infrastructure, particularly across the developing world.
- According to the United Nations, over 40% of the global population are vulnerable to the destructive effects of the climate change.
- Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, Now, El Nino is strengthening and is likely to bring another period of significant climate stress across the world with disproportionate impact on nations like Somalia.
- We also continue to strategically increase investment in education, health, and human capital, despite the pressures created by geopolitical tensions, recurrent climate shocks, and rising global prices.
Gambia (Republic of The) · Mohammed Jallow · Day 3 · 7 sentences
- Respect for the United Nations Charter and international law is under visible strain, with developing countries facing intensifying debt burden, climate vulnerabilities, huge gaps between commitments made and implementation, and feeling of marginalization and inadequate representation in the global system.
- Security measures are necessary, but they must be accompanied by increased support for democratic governance institution building, education, job creation, development, and climate resilience.
- The absence of education, healthcare, decent employment, and the loss of homes and livelihoods to climate change leave communities as vulnerable as conflict itself.
- The above would enable developing countries to invest in education, health, agriculture, climate resilience, and other productive sectors to holistically address their interconnected challenges.
Fiji · Ratu Naiqama Tawakecolati Lalabalavu · Day 3 · 7 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.
- The Pacific Resilience Facility is the first climate and disaster financing facility owned, governed, and hosted by the states it serves.
- Mr. President, nowhere is the deep gap between the promise and the delivery more consequential than in the climate crisis.
- For the Pacific, climate change is not a future scenario.
Grenada · Ingrid Jackson · Day 6 · 7 sentences
- This requires Greater international cooperation in climate adaptation, disaster preparedness, resilient infrastructure, and accessible financing.
- Small island developing states should not be viewed simply as victims of climate change.
- Climate action remains one of the areas in which collective effort can make a profound difference.
- For vulnerable countries, climate commitments must be accompanied by reliable access to the resources required to deliver them.
Sierra Leone · Julius Maada Bio · Day 1 · 6 sentences
- No doable global solution on peace, Climate, food, energy, or technology can be built without African leadership.
- 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.
- For them, climate change is the disappearance of home in the present.
Seychelles · Mathew Antonio Patrick Herminie · Day 1 · 6 sentences
- Conflict destroys lives, uproots communities, and diverts vital resources away from healthcare, education, and climate resilience.
- The same logic applies directly to the climate crisis.
- For Seychelles, climate change is not a prospective debate.
- Seychelles, therefore, welcomes the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on climate change, reinforcing that climate action is rooted in international law, equity, and intergenerational crisis.
Namibia · Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah · Day 2 · 6 sentences
- Middle-income countries continue to face high borrowing costs, limited fiscal space, debt vulnerabilities, climate-related shocks, and persistent inequality.
- 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.
- In the spirit of climate justice, we call for a greater responsibility by those who have contributed the most to the global greenhouse gas emission, including through increased support for countries that are most vulnerable to climate impact.
Eswatini · King Mswati III · Day 2 · 6 sentences
- Yet, at a time when conflicts persist, inequalities deepen, climate-related disasters intensify, and countless communities continue to struggle against poverty and insecurity, the international community must renew its commitment to global cooperation.
- Parallel to health, security is the fundamental crisis of climate change, which is another defining challenge of our generation.
- yet bear the brunt of droughts, floods, shifting weather patterns, and climate-induced shocks.
- Therefore, climate action must be accompanied by climate justice.
Ghana · John Dramani Mahama · Day 3 · 6 sentences
- African and Caribbean nations struck by climate disasters are forced to take on crippling debts to rebuild from floods and droughts that they did not cause.
- We need long-term, affordable, and accessible concessionary financing that enables developing economies to invest in human capital, in industrialization, and climate adaptation.
- Mr. President, those who have declared climate change a hoax perpetrated by geopolitical opponents, the warnings of recent times cannot have been clearer.
- Climate change is the ultimate test of global equity.
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.
- And addressing climate change, which threatens their very existence through rising sea levels and increasing salinity.
Papua New Guinea · James Marape · Day 4 · 6 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.
- And what inheritance are we leaving behind for our children if the forest disappears, our oceans become polluted, and our climate becomes increasingly unstable?
- We depend upon the same global climate.
- Mr. President, think about the children of the world, a child born today did not create climate change.
Samoa · Mulipola Anarosa Ale Molioo · Day 4 · 6 sentences
- 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.
- Climate finance is the bridge between ambition and action.
- It must be scaled up, easily accessible, devoid of burdensome condition, and responsive to the needs of the most climate vulnerable.
Mauritius · Dhananjay Ramful · Day 4 · 6 sentences
- Eight decades replete with resolutions, declarations, and action on decolonization, development, new international order, the new constitution for the oceans, as well as climate and the environment, technology, human rights, international law, and peacekeeping.
- 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.
- We also support the legal principle affirmed by the ICJ that states are under no obligation to update the maritime baselines or zones to account for climate-induced sea level rise.
Benin · Marc Hermanne Gninadoou Araba · Day 6 · 6 sentences
- worsening inequality, debt levels which are reducing the room for maneuver available to many states, as well as climate upheaval, which is hitting the most vulnerable the hardest.
- 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.
- Mr. President, The climate issue is an excellent illustration of this demand for justice.
- Africa contributes relatively little to global greenhouse gas emissions, and yet we are already bearing the full brunt of climate change.
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
- The glacial flooding in Nepal that claimed many lives and destroyed the foundations of people's livelihoods evidences that the climate crisis is a reality of today, not tomorrow.
- We will take the lead in shaping AI into a tool for solving the shared challenges we face, such as the climate crisis, public health, food insecurity, and refugee issues.
- The climate crisis is often referred to as a global group project shared by all 8 billion people on Earth.
- The Republic of Korea announced its 2030 nationally determined contributions as part of its active participation in the Paris Agreement and UN-centered climate action.
Andorra · Xavier Espot Zamora · Day 2 · 5 sentences
- Climate change is no longer a scientific projection.
- We undertook this effort convinced that mountains can no longer remain a peripheral element of the international climate agenda.
- And we have once again confirmed that climate change is not a challenge for future generations.
- And the voices of mountain territories have been heard in major international climate negotiations.
European Union · António Costa · Day 3 · 5 sentences
- Alone, no country can prevent a pandemic, stabilize the climate, secure resilient supply chains, regulate artificial intelligence, ensure financial stability, or deliver sustainable development.
- Multilateralism equipped to address the defining challenges of today, peace, the climate emergency, economic insecurity, and artificial intelligence.
- Because the best argument for multilateralism is what it delivers on peace and security with the Treaty of Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, on climate action with the Paris Agreement, on poverty and health with the global response to COVID-19.
- Here, I would like to pay tribute to the Secretary-General His clear efforts in favor of respect of the United Nations Charter, the defense of human rights, reforming the global financial architecture, sustainable development, and decisive action in the face of climate change have all been a true beacon lighting our path, guiding our collective commitment.
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · Godwin Friday · Day 4 · 5 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.
- Small states cannot continue borrowing merely to replace what climate-related disasters repeatedly destroy.
- But reflects the real climate risks.
Azerbaijan · Jeyhun Aziz oglu Bayramov · Day 4 · 5 sentences
- Azerbaijan supports a more effective UN capable of delivering tangible results for member states, especially in peace and security, development, climate resilience and humanitarian action.
- The conference delivered several historic agreements, including the tripling of the global climate finance goal, full operationalization of Article 6 carbon market mechanisms, and further advancement of arrangements supporting the loss and damage fund for vulnerable communities affected by climate change.
- Our efforts to advance climate action likewise did not end with COP29.
- This September, for the first time, Baku hosted the UNFCCC Climate Week, bringing together governments, international organizations, the private sector, and other stakeholders to advance implementation and practical solutions.
Cabo Verde · Francisco Avelino Vieira de Carvalho · Day 5 · 5 sentences
- Excellencies, for Cabo Verde and other small island states, The climate crisis is not a distant threat, it is a present reality.
- Climate crisis is here.
- In September 2024, Cabo Verde launched a call for a global compact for climate mobility.
- And in June, in Berlin, 57 countries endorsed the global consensus on the principles to address climate mobility.
Lao People’s Democratic Republic · Thongsavanh Phomvihane · Day 5 · 5 sentences
- geopolitical crisis and tension, microeconomic instability, supply chain disruption, and accelerating climate emergencies.
- Mr. President, the gap between commitment and delivery on climate change equally tests the credibility of multilateralism.
- However, Climate ambitions must be matched by adequate, predictable, and accessible climate finance, technology transfer, and capacity building to enable vulnerable developing states to adapt, build long-term resilience, and pursue low carbon growth pathways.
- Fourth, protecting natural resources, building climate resilience and mitigating disaster risk.
San Marino · Luca Beccari · Day 5 · 5 sentences
- Yet today, conflicts are multiplying, inequalities are deepening, climate disruption is accelerating, food and water are increasingly being used as an instrument of pressure, and the rules that have governed international relations for decades are being challenged.
- 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.
- Conflict and climate shock are driving hunger and malnutrition.
Jamaica · Kamina Johnson Smith · Day 5 · 5 sentences
- Climate change is destroying lives, livelihoods, and decades of development in a matter of hours.
- But no level of prudent national planning can fully insulate a small developing state from a climate event of that magnitude.
- We've also submitted our updated nationally determined contribution, completed our long-term strategy for a low-carbon, climate-resilient future, and advanced our national adaptation plan.
- Climate finance must become more accessible, affordable, and predictable.
Sri Lanka · Vijitha Herath · Day 6 · 5 sentences
- The erosion of trust is reflected in unresolved conflicts, humanitarian crises that outpace available resources, increasingly frequent climate disasters, widening inequalities, and technological advances that are moving faster than governance.
- Despite conflicts in several parts of the world, including in West Asia, and climate calamities, including the cyclone that struck Sri Lanka, my country has restored macroeconomic stability following the economic crisis of 2022.
- These tragic events demonstrate the enormous human and economic cost of climate change.
- The call for action on climate impact is not merely immediate.
Angola · João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço · Day 1 · 4 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.
- The voice of Africans must be heard in all circumstances, at all times, in strategic decision-making processes on issues of peace, global security, financing for development as well as climate issues and 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.
- This situation clearly illustrates the need to establish predictable, affordable and additional climate financing without further aggravating the debt of developing countries.
Japan · Takaichi Sanae · Day 1 · 4 sentences
- 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.
- I believe that climate action and economic growth can go hand in hand.
- Furthermore, Japan will contribute to global climate action, including through GX related efforts such as the Asia Zero Emission Community.
Botswana · Duma Gideon Boko · Day 2 · 4 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.
Central African Republic · Faustin Archange Touadera · Day 2 · 4 sentences
- Mr. President, we cannot restore trust without tackling climate change with the same resolve.
- There cannot be lasting security without climate security.
- There cannot be climate security without climate justice.
- that the loss and damage fund become fully operational and accessible, that adaptation financing should no longer be the forgotten stepchild of climate finance, and that the countries of the Congo Basin, the second largest lung of the planet, should finally be justly compensated for the services they provide to humanity by protecting their ecosystems.
Ethiopia · Taye Atske-Selassie Amde · Day 2 · 4 sentences
- Mr. President, I would like to thank the Secretary-General for placing before us the defining imperatives of our era, namely artificial intelligence, the climate crisis, and deepening global inequalities.
- Ethiopia will help organize a vibrant and inclusive platform for the private sector and international stakeholders to pioneer tangible solution to climate action.
- In this connection, I sincerely invite all world leaders to come to Ethiopia and leave their footprints at this important global climate summit.
- As part of fulfilling our commitment to enhance resilience to climate shock, we were able to produce an improved climate resilient wheat variety seed.
Montenegro · Jakov Milatović · Day 2 · 4 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.
- Excellencies, the choices we make today, choices on peace, technology, and climate action will shape the lives of generations yet to come.
- 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.
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.
Nigeria · Kashim Shettima · Day 3 · 4 sentences
- Mr. President, we reject the false choice between development and climate action.
- Developing countries must industrialize, eradicate poverty, and expand energy access through low carbon pathways supported by technology transfer, capacity building, and climate finance.
- This effort combines renewable energy, clean cooking, and gas as a transitional fuel with climate-smart agriculture and nature-based solutions, finance, must be governed by equity and shared responsibility, rather than charity, with international commitments translated into accessible, predictable, and adequately funded mechanisms that enable developing countries to pursue climate action without compromising development objectives.
- We also support innovative financing through private capital, blended finance, South-South cooperation, and strategic partnerships for sustainable development climate adaptation, and resilient infrastructure.
Maldives · Hussain Mohamed Latheef · Day 4 · 4 sentences
- For states like the Maldives, none is more consequential than climate change.
- For SIDS, climate change is altering the very physical foundations of our nations.
- Small states understand how closely climate, finance, trade, supply chains, and security are connected.
- When we act on conflict, climate, finance, technology, or institutional reform, let us ask, Does this decision expand a status freedom tools?
Marshall Islands · Hilda Heine · Day 4 · 4 sentences
- As we gather in Tuvalu, Fiji, and Turkey for this year's climate pre-COP and COP, our response to the threat of overshoot must be overwhelming.
- This week, the Marshall Islands convened the High Ambition Coalition, a diverse group of countries committed to a rigorous response to the climate crisis.
- The importance of a 1.5 degrees Celsius temperature limit, an urgent transition away from fossil fuels, and the need for adequate and accessible climate finance, especially for adaptation and loss and damage.
- Confronted with rising seas on our most vulnerable shorelines, we completed the Yibai seawall and footpath last week, 1.8 kilometers of ocean-side protection, built with support from the World Bank, the Green Climate Fund, and our own resources.
Liechtenstein · Sabine Monauni · Day 4 · 4 sentences
- President, it has now been many decades since scientists first warned us of the dangers of climate change.
- Nevertheless, we have continued to run into the climate abyss, leaving the coming chaos for our children and their children.
- The climate crisis is real.
- We support the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on climate change.
Kazakhstan · Mukhtar Tileuberdi · Day 4 · 4 sentences
- Climate change, biodiversity loss, land degradation, and the growing frequency of natural disaster are placing increasing pressure on our societies and economies.
- The Regional Ecological Summit held in Astana in April reaffirmed that climate, water, food, and health challenges cannot be addressed in isolation.
- Water underpins public health, food and energy security, climate resilience and peace.
- The recent devastating floods in the mountainous regions of Nepal and China remind us of the growing risk associated with water and climate-related disasters.
Philippines · Ma. Theresa Lazaro · Day 5 · 4 sentences
- When more than 645 million people face hunger, When our climate remains in a state of calamity, and when our collective conscience is stained by humanitarian catastrophes, reflection must give way to urgent, united resolve.
- Put a face to the climate emergency.
- Look to the Philippines, one of the world's most climate-vulnerable nations.
- Those who have contributed least to the climate crisis must now bear its heaviest cost.
Tunisia · Mohamed Ali Nafti · Day 5 · 4 sentences
- Believing that climate change is a major factor affecting development, security, and stability, Tunisia emphasizes that addressing this challenge requires a genuine climate justice particularly since developing countries bear severe consequences despite their limited historical responsibility for emissions.
- Accordingly, countries with the greatest responsibility must fulfill their commitments regarding climate finance while maintaining a clear distinction between climate financing and development financing.
- Tunisia believes that achieving climate justice Comprehensive development and pandemic preparedness and response requires reform of the international financial architecture to make it more equitable, inclusive, and fair, thus ensuring developing countries have easier and fairer access to financing and enabling them to invest in scientific research, technology, innovation, and digital transformation, thereby reducing their debt burdens, strengthening their resilience, and empowering them to rely on their own capacities in shaping their future.
- We stress the importance of promoting the comprehensive and interconnected nature of human rights, including economic, climate-related, social, scientific, cultural, and educational rights, foremost among them, the fundamental right to development.
Sao Tome and Principe · Ilza Maria dos Santos Amado Vaz · Day 5 · 4 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.
- This reality reflects a profound climate injustice.
- We likewise advocate for the full operationalization of the fund for responding to loss and damage and simpler, more effective access to the Green Climate Fund.
Turkmenistan · Vepa Hajiyev · Day 6 · 4 sentences
- Rising conflict potential, the erosion of trust, economic instability, climate risk, and the rapid development of new technologies are becoming increasingly intertwined, directly affecting the security and well-being of peoples.
- Excellencies, distinguished delegates, environmental, security, Climate change and the sustainable use of energy resources are integral components of common security.
- In this area, Turkmenistan will continue to promote multilateral dialogue by proposing the establishment of the Ashgabat Climate Dialogue, an open multilateral platform for regular political and expert engagement, the advancement of practical climate initiatives, and the strengthening of international relationships.
- We believe particular attention must be paid to strengthening the climate resilience of regions severely affected by drought and water scarcity.
South Sudan · Cecilia Adout Majok Adeng · Day 6 · 4 sentences
- Mr. President, South Sudan continues to face severe consequences from climate shocks, despite contributing minimally to global emission.
- South Sudan, therefore, reiterates its call for predictable and accessible climate financing, investment in adaptation, resilient infrastructure, renewable energy, agriculture, and technology transfer.
- Climate justice must reflect not only in commitments, but in the implementation.
- Similarly, Developing countries must have a stronger voice in international financial institutions and decisions concerning development, financing, debt, climate, and technology.
President of the General Assembly (closing) · Dr. Khalilur Rahman · Day 6 · 4 sentences
- Those speaking most urgently about development were often the countries facing the heaviest debt burdens, the narrowest fiscal space, the greatest climate vulnerability, and the least voice in the institutions that shape the global economy.
- Climate disasters are erasing hard-earned development gains and deepening inequality.
- For small island developing states, low-lying coastal countries, least developed countries, and climate-vulnerable nations, adaptation and resilience are not optional expenditures.
- And this number was more than those who spoke on climate change and human rights.
Suriname · Jennifer Geerlings-Simons · Day 1 · 3 sentences
- Food and energy security, climate resilience, improved connectivity and movement of skilled people, transportation of goods and services.
- High forested and low deforestation countries like Suriname should not first have to lose forests before climate finance institutions recognize the value of protecting them.
- So I will continue my plea for just and effective climate finance.
Viet Nam · To Lam · Day 1 · 3 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.
- Climate action must be accorded its rightful place in development cooperation, particularly via adaptation finance, technology transfer and a just energy transition.
- We stand ready to share our experience in poverty reduction, agricultural development, and climate change adaptation to work with partners to broaden cooperation for common interest.
Croatia · Andrej Plenković · Day 1 · 3 sentences
- The world is being transformed by technology, climate change, demographic pressures, illegal migration, and geopolitical rivalry.
- Climate action should be used to strengthen energy security and social cohesion.
- For Europe, which imports most of the energy it consumes, the case for producing more renewable energy at home now reaches far beyond climate policy.
Burundi · Évariste Ndayishimiye · Day 2 · 3 sentences
- Indeed, Mr. President, climate change strikes the most vulnerable populations particularly hard.
- We therefore call for stronger international solidarity on adaptation, climate financing, and technology transfer.
- We must strengthen our partnership in the areas of peace and security, sustainable development, health, climate, youth, and global governance.
Cyprus · Nikos Christodoulides · Day 2 · 3 sentences
Zimbabwe · Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa · Day 3 · 3 sentences
- Conflicts are spreading, climate shocks are intensifying, and technology is advancing faster than the rules that govern it.
- We are also pursuing food and nutrition security and climate-smart agriculture.
- As droughts, floods, and declining threaten water, food and energy security, developed countries are called upon to honour their climate finance commitments in line with common but differentiated responsibilities.
Côte d’Ivoire · Tiémoko Meyliet Koné · Day 3 · 3 sentences
- At the same time, climate upheavals are hitting our countries hard, not to mention the humanitarian crises and deep inequalities that are weakening our societies.
- Climate challenges require a similar degree of mobilization.
- In this context, honouring international commitments on climate finance, adaptation and technology transfer is an imperative of justice and solidarity.
Bangladesh · Tarique Rahman · Day 3 · 3 sentences
- 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.
- Therefore, Bangladesh expects stronger global cooperation at COP31 on climate justice, climate finance and adaptation support.
Ireland · Micheál Martin · Day 3 · 3 sentences
- The impacts of the climate crisis are felt in every corner of our world.
- I especially commend his courage in tackling the climate crisis, the fundamental issue of our time.
- From devastating floods in Nepal to wildfires across Europe, communities are increasingly experiencing the consequences of a changing climate.
North Macedonia · Hristijan Mickoski · Day 4 · 3 sentences
Pakistan · Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif · Day 4 · 3 sentences
- Ladies and gentlemen, Is it not an irony of fate that Pakistan contributes less than 1% of global emissions, yet repeatedly bears the horrific consequences of climate change?
- Developed countries must therefore honour their climate finance commitments without delay, fund loss and damage speedily, and ensure support for adaptation and resilience.
- We will restore trust when those who failed the climate, those who fueled the climate crisis, protect those who suffer most from its devastating consequences.
Egypt · Moustafa Kamal Madbouly · Day 4 · 3 sentences
- Climate action must go hand in hand with development, poverty reduction and job creation.
- Adaptation, water security, and food security must receive the priority they deserve, especially in Africa and the countries most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.
- Drawing on Egypt's experience in hosting the climate conference in Sharm el-Sheikh and the decision it adopted, we can affirm that the gap no longer lies in diagnosing the problem, but in implementation.
Norway · Espen Barth Eide · Day 4 · 3 sentences
- Climate change, biodiversity loss, and rampant pollution threatens life, property, and prosperity everywhere.
- The catastrophic floods that struck the Himalayas last month is yet another stark reminder of the growing risk associated with climate change.
- We cannot put fences around our own climate, our own biosphere, or deal with the ills of our oceans on our own.
Guatemala · Carlos Ramiro Martínez Alvarado · Day 4 · 3 sentences
- Following crop losses caused by climate-related events, more than 450,000 families have received food assistance, while small-scale producers have gained access to seeds, tools, inputs, and insurance mechanisms.
- 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 · 3 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.
- Sweden will continue to promote climate action based on urgency and opportunity.
- Urgency based on what science tells us, opportunity based on the economic growth, jobs, and strengthened competitiveness that climate transition brings.
Iceland · Thorgerdur Katrín Gunnarsdóttir · Day 5 · 3 sentences
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.
- Gabon, a country with extensive forest cover and a low deforestation rate, as well as being a major carbon sink, therefore calls for greater recognition of its contribution to global climate regulation and the ecosystem services that it provides to humanity.
Congo · Constant Serge Bounda · Day 6 · 3 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.
- This exceptional ecosystem contains immense biodiversity and plays a crucial role in regulating the global climate.
- The Congo Basin is one of Africa's principal contributions to the fight against climate change.
Denmark · Christina Markus Lassen · Day 6 · 3 sentences
United States of America · Donald Trump · Day 1 · 2 sentences
- 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.
Finland · Alexander Stubb · Day 1 · 2 sentences
- We need multilateralism in order to address our shared agenda, ranging from conflicts and climate change to sustainable development and artificial intelligence.
- And this is my first observation today, the emergence of flexible forms of cooperation around different themes and interests, be it in the economy, climate, defense, or technology.
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland · Andy Burnham · Day 1 · 2 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.
- The climate crisis is now a national security threat for countries around the world, as this summer of extreme heat, wildfires, and floods has proved beyond doubt.
Belgium · Maxime Prévot · Day 1 · 2 sentences
Czechia · Petr Pavel · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Timor-Leste · José Ramos-Horta · Day 2 · 2 sentences
- President, the more or less reaffirmed the principles of climate justice, common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities in the light of different national circumstances.
- Greater climate ambition must be accompanied by accessible, predictable finance, adaptation support, technology transfer and capacity building.
Dominican Republic · Luis Rodolfo Abinader Corona · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Mozambique · Daniel Francisco Chapo · Day 2 · 2 sentences
- 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.
- We therefore reiterate the need to increase funding for adaptation, facilitate access to climate funds, operationalize the loss and damage mechanisms, and invest in early warning systems and resilient infrastructure.
Honduras · Nasry Juan Asfura Zablah · Day 2 · 2 sentences
- The hurricanes that have beset us in the past and today's drought have the same root cause, That is a climate which is operating at increasing extremes and that will affect the entire world for decades.
- Rather, we are taking action by preparing as best we can to mitigate the effects of climate change.
Guyana · Mohamed Irfaan Ali · Day 3 · 2 sentences
Comoros · Azali Assoumani · Day 3 · 2 sentences
Hungary · András Bálint Baka · Day 3 · 2 sentences
Thailand · Anutin Charnvirakul · Day 3 · 2 sentences
South Africa · Ronald Ozzy Lamola · Day 3 · 2 sentences
Monaco · Christophe Mirmand · Day 4 · 2 sentences
Malta · Robert Abela · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- And alongside spreading conflict and the dangers of uncontrolled technology, the greatest threat to us all, and especially island nations like Malta, is man-made climate change.
- That spirit was evident when in 1988, right at the start of the concern about global warming, Malta proposed the United Nations General Assembly resolution that recognized climate change as a global problem requiring collective and global solutions.
Haiti · Alix Didier Fils-Aimé · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- Today, while deadly crises and conflicts have proliferated, and the climate emergency is intensifying and new divisions are threatening stability in Haiti and throughout the world, this founding endeavor is being put to the test.
- For small states such as Haiti, the cost of climate change has become unsustainable.
Guinea-Bissau · Ilídio Vieira Té · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- We live in an interdependent world marked by growing uncertainty and by challenges that transcend borders, climate change, transnational organized crime, terrorism, structural inequalities, the burden of debt, and insufficient financing for development continue to undermine our efforts towards sustainable development.
- Enormous gaps persist in financing for development and climate action, alongside high levels of poverty and social inequality, and a growing and unsustainable debt burden on the economies of developing countries.
China · Han Zheng · Day 5 · 2 sentences
Belize · John Briceño · Day 5 · 2 sentences
- Income per capita does not reveal how much of an economy sits in a hurricane's path, what it cost to serve dispersed communities, or how quickly a climate shock can reverse fiscal gains.
- Today, that partnership is helping Belize close real gaps in climate resilience and in the technical capacity of our agricultural and public infrastructure sector.
Saudi Arabia · Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud · Day 5 · 2 sentences
- The Kingdom affirms that energy security and climate action are mutually reinforcing objectives.
- In this context, we stress the importance of not excluding any source of energy and of pursuing realistic and comprehensive transition pathways that achieve energy security, protect the climate, and support economic development.
Singapore · Vivian Balakrishnan · Day 5 · 2 sentences
- Madam President, Excellencies, our world is undergoing a profound disruption, characterised by great power contestation, the wars in Ukraine, the Middle East, Africa, We're witnessing the rise of trade barriers, supply chain disruptions, worsening climate change, and a new industrial revolution driven by digital technologies, biotechnology, and renewable energy.
- He has been a consistent voice for the Charter, for our climate and oceans, and for the rules that hold the global commons together.
Cameroon · Lejeune Mbella Mbella · Day 5 · 2 sentences
Mali · Abdoulaye Diop · Day 6 · 2 sentences
Burkina Faso · Karamoko Jean Marie Traoré · Day 6 · 2 sentences
- On the development file, the Confederation remains concerned over the aggravation of climate vulnerabilities, the multiplication of humanitarian crises, the malicious use of technology and ICTs for manipulation and destabilization.
- Our priorities must be clearly defined, reducing the digital gap, strengthening climate resilience, investing in human capital, consolidating and strengthening educational health systems, supporting industrialization, ensuring the effective participation of youth and women in decision making.
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea · Kim Son Gyong · Day 6 · 2 sentences
- The effects of disaster-prone abnormal climate gave rise to a succession of extreme high temperature, droughts, heavy rains and floods in many countries and regions, seriously threatening the survival of mankind.
- The international community came to realize once again that climate change is a pressing issue that calls for joint action.
New Zealand · Victoria Louise Hallum · Day 6 · 2 sentences
Costa Rica · Boris Vasir Marchegiani Carrero · Day 6 · 2 sentences
President of the General Assembly (opening) · Dr. Khalilur Rahman · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Brazil · Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Jordan · Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Luxembourg · Guillaume of Luxembourg · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Bosnia and Herzegovina · Denis Bećirović · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Switzerland · Guy Parmelin · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Trinidad and Tobago · Kamla Persad-Bissessar · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Latvia · Edgars Rinkēvičs · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Estonia · Alar Karis · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Libya · Mohamed Younis Menfi · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Panama · José Raúl Mulino Quintero · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Poland · Karol Nawrocki · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) · Delcy Eloína Rodríguez Gómez · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Rwanda · Justin Nsengiyumva · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Liberia · Joseph Nyuma Boakai · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Equatorial Guinea · Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Senegal · Bassirou Diomaye Diakhar Faye · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Kuwait · Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Greece · Kyriakos Mitsotakis · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Iraq · Ali Falih Al-Zaidi · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Lebanon · Nawaf Salam · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Bahamas (the) · Philip Edward Davis · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Chad · Abdelmadjid Abdelrahim Mahamat · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Togo · Robert Komlan Edo Dussey · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Cambodia · Sokhonn Prak · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Cuba · Bruno Eduardo Rodríguez Parrilla · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Brunei Darussalam · Prince 'Abdul Mateen · Day 5 · 1 sentence
India · Subrahmanyam Jaishankar · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Germany · Johann Wadephul · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Tajikistan · Sirojiddin Muhriddin · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Indonesia · Sugiono · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Eritrea · Osman Saleh Mohammed · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Sudan · Mohieldin Salim Ahmed Ibrahim · Day 6 · 1 sentence
United Arab Emirates · Khalifa Shaheen Al Marar · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Democratic People's Republic of Korea · · Day 6 · 1 sentence