(UN News)* — The world has moved beyond a water crisis and into a state of global water bankruptcy, says a new flagship report released on Tuesday [] by UN researchers.
For decades, scientists, policymakers and the media warned of a “global water crisis,” implying temporary shock – followed by recovery.
What is now emerging in many regions, however, is a persistent shortage whereby water systems can no longer realistically return to their historical baselines.
“For much of the world, ‘normal’ is gone,” said Kaveh Madani, Director of the UN University Institute for Water, Environment and Health.
The UN on Thursday [] issued a call for widespread financial reform as the most powerful way to shift global markets towards realising a better world, for people and the planet.
For every dollar invested in protecting nature, 30 dollars are spent on destroying it– that’s the central finding of theState of Finance for Nature 2026report, which calls for a major policy shift towards scaling up solutions that help the natural world – and support the economy at the same time.
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