As the situation in the Strait of Hormuz has shown, a global economy that is built on fossil fuels is inherently volatile and unstable. Assistant Secretary-General of the UN Climate Action Team, Selwin Hart, explains how the just transition away from fossil fuels is no longer just a climate imperative – it’s an economic and development imperative.
ECB President Christine Lagarde explains the Governing Council’s monetary policy decisions and will answer questions from journalists at the Governing Council press conference to be held on Thursday, 30 April 2026 at 14:45 CEST in Frankfurt am Main.
The Village Vanguard is the oldest jazz club in New York City, founded by Max Gordon in 1935. The club worked as a platform to present all kinds of cultural and political events and became primarily a jazz music venue in 1957. Since then, the club has hosted many renowned jazz musicians from around the world, including Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and Thelonious Monk.
UN News and UN Video interviews the current owner of the club, Deborah Gordon and three-time Grammy Award-winning American jazz pianist Sullivan Joseph Fortner for the International Jazz Day on 30 April.
The Day was proclaimed by UNESCO in 2011 to celebrate the power of jazz as a force for peace, dialogue and mutual understanding.