Two UN food agencies issued stark warnings on Monday about multiple, looming food crises on the planet, driven by climate “shocks” like drought and worsened by the impacts of the COVID−19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine that have sent fuel and food prices soaring.

Leaders of the world's biggest economies on Saturday, October 30, 2021, endorsed a global minimum tax on corporations, a linchpin of new international tax rules aimed at blunting the edge of fiscal paradises amid skyrocketing profits of some multinational businesses.

Pope Francis on Monday, July 26, 2021, decried as criminal the existence of hunger in a world which can produce enough food for all, building on a warning from U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres that climate change and conflict are a consequence and driver of poverty and income inequality.

Many of the climate and energy ministers at a Group of 20 meeting hosted by Italy agreed Friday to work toward even more ambitious goals for fighting climate change than those established in the 2015 Paris accords, an Italian official said.

The United Nations culture agency, which was considering declaring Venice an imperiled world heritage site, on Wednesday, July 14, 2021, hailed Italy’s ban on big cruise ships in the heart of the lagoon city.

With the pandemic providing painful lessons on how interconnected the world is, ministers from nations accounting for more than half the world’s population were meeting in Italy on Tuesday, June 29, 2021 to explore how to better cooperate, including on vaccines and climate change efforts.