Vaccine Debate, Climate Goals Top a Scaled-Back UN Summit
A nurse prepares a Covid-19 vaccine in a Rohingya refugee camp with the help of the UN agencies.
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Expanding access to Covid-19 vaccines and confronting the rising dangers of climate change will dominate a week-long United Nations gathering in New York that’s taking place in person after going all-virtual in 2020.
More than 100 world leaders are expected for the annual UN General Assembly, a sharp change from last year when the world struggled through the Covid-19 pandemic without vaccines. Now as nations debate how to distribute billions of doses of vaccine and the impacts of extreme weather events rise, the UNGA is back in a hybrid mode.