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There's Nico.

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Welcome to the press briefing of the UN Information Service here in Geneva.

Today is Friday, 10th of July in this wonderful heat.

We have a few topics today for you.

And I would like to start immediately by giving the floor to Sophia Caltorp.

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Sophia, you are joining us from Stockholm this time, if I'm not wrong, and you are here this morning because the organisation You and Women is launching a new global report on the impact of eight cuts on women's organisations yesterday.

I think you have received under embargo the press release, the information on this report.

The embargo was lifted at 10:00, if I'm not wrong.

So we will hear now from Sophia about this important report.

I'll give you the floor, Sophia.

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Thank you very much, Alessandra.

And, and good morning to everybody.

Today, Even Women is launching a new report on the impact of aid cuts on women's organisations and on the women and girls that they serve.

And the funding of this report are deeply disturbing.

Since January 2025, at least one million women and girls affected by conflict and crisis have lost access to critical services and support.

UN Women has spoken to 855 women's organisations working in 52 countries who have told us that these women and girls have been turned away due to funding cuts that are dismantling their organisations.

And we know that this number, at least one million women and girls, is just the tip of the iceberg.

If you have ever been in a war or disaster zone, you will know that women's organisations are the muscle and the lifeblood of humanitarian response.

They are the first to respond and the last to leave.

During Crisises, they work on the front lines of the world's most complex and dangerous crises, in Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan or Yemen, serving the communities they are closest to and in some cases their staff, but mostly women.

They go where international actors cannot, facing huge risks and personal sacrifices by doing so.

Needs and demand for the services are outpacing the support available, which is itself shrinking.

8 in 10 have seen an increase in demand for the services since January 2025.

And yet more than nine in 10 women's organisations that we spoke to, they told us that they cannot meet the current levels of need.

3/4 have been forced to cut stuff.

Just as we record the highest level of armed conflict that the world has seen in decades.

4 in 10 women's organisations working in humanitarian crisis as expect to close in the next 12 months Cases of conflict related sexual violence doubled in 2025 and yet nearly 2/3 of women's organisations have told us that safe spaces and gender based violence services have been significantly reduced or are no longer available in their communities.

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Nearly 2/3 of the organisations we surveyed told us that their staff are working without pay to keep critical support for women and girls afloat.

These sacrifices, they are testament to the commitment.

But the expectation cannot be that women absorb these costs.

They are already signs that they are being pushed beyond the breaking point.

Almost half report rising burnout among their their teams.

And let's be clear, the cuts to women's organisations are happening at the time.

We are seeing women's rights being eroded.

And these two things, they are so deeply connected.

9 in 10 women's organisations that we spoke to, they said that they have seen an increase in poverty among the women they serve, 8 in 10 have seen an increase in girls dropping out of school and seven in 10 have seen an increase in forced marriages.

We are seeing how defunding of women's rights and gender equality in the intern settings have fuelled insecurity.

But the reality is that when you invest in women's protection and leadership, community, strengthen and peace last longer.

And yet one in five organisations has already suspended work that is designed to advance women's leadership and gender equality, and more than half are already seeing less women participate in community leadership and local decision making.

Funding shortfalls deepen inequality and division, both of which comes with an incredibly costly price tag.

The deep irony is that women's organisations are highly cost effective.

UN Women calls for immediate action from donors and from the humanitarian community to prioritise funding for women's organisations.

They need multi year support that allow them to plan to retain staff and strengthen the institutions and they need to be part of decisions about resources and responses.

UN Women is working to make this happen.

We are on the ground in crisis and conflict affected countries around the world, working together with women's organisations to strengthen their leadership, the capacity and ability to reach all women and girls.

We will not and we cannot allow them to become yet another casualty award.

Thank you very much and over to you Alessandra.

Thank you very much Sophia.

Thanks for launching this report in Geneva, which is such an important series of data.

I'll open the floor to questions now if any.

Olivia, you have the floor.

So thank you very much for that.

Really, really interesting and albeit concerning report.

I was interested what you're saying about this have almost dual track challenge that that women's organisations are facing both in terms of funding cuts, but also you're mentioning there about this kind of broader backlash and challenge to to women's rights.

So just wondering on the latter kind of what things you're, you're, you're, you're seeing in, in that regard and how together that creates such a worrying picture and kind of how much more concerned are you from now a year end, maybe how you were when, when this crisis started, you know, more than a year ago?

Because I know there was an initial kind of assessment that young women did, right, preliminary assessment.

I'm just wondering how much more severe your findings were than than expected.

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I mean, you're precisely right.

This is an extremely worrisome development because we, because what we see are two at the same time reinforcing trends.

So we see this funding cuts really having an immediate effect on the on, on, on, on critical services to women and girls.

That said, at least one million women and girls have already lost out of of critical services.

But at the same time, we see this erosion of, of, of investment in women's leadership and capacity to, to work within their community.

And, and I've been throughout this year, travelled to Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan, and, and those women organisations that are very often working with very, very little funding, but doing incredible work within their capacity to see how, how their ability to even exist and to work within their community is.

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It's, it's an extremely worrisome trend because as I said, you know, the, the women organisations are, it's, it's, it's the backbone of humanitarian response.

Without those community LED responses in places like ESO where now access is is extremely difficult for non actual actors, there would be no no response whatsoever for those communities to see to see these trends coming together and really eroding the whole kind of machinery and architecture for for women, women's organisations in in crisis is extremely worrisome.

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Thank you very much Sophia.

Any other question on this report?

I don't see other hands up.

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I believe Sophia, the the report is now available on your website and and journalists will not have received the press release.

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We will also.

We will also, I mean, I don't know if Georgina or somebody else can send your notes to the journalist.

Thank you very much for this, for this important report.

And let me go now to our second speaker, who's from WHO, Tarek, you want to come on the podium while we are also connecting with Doctor Shiblet Sabani.

I think you will remember Doctor Sabani who has already addressed as W2 representative to Sudan.

But Sir, I believe you are in Tripoli at the moment in Libya and you are calling in from that to give us an update of the health situation in Sudan.

And Tariq is on my side.

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Thank you very much, Alessandra.

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Yes, indeed.

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We're currently on short mission, so colleagues for more than two years are briefed with the Palais de Nacio on Sudan.

Sadly, my message has remained the same despite all the efforts that we have been doing as WHO, but also as HealthPartners and despite all the commitments of Sudan health leadership and health workers, the situation remains really concerning for us, mainly the health situation.

So Sudan remains the world's largest humanitarian crisis with more than 33 million people in need, including 21 million requiring health services.

And despite all the returns that we've witnessed, especially to states which are where the situation is improving, here I'm talking about Dongola Sartum, somehow on their men, but still 13.4 million people are displaced, 9 million Idps and 4.6 million across borders.

With regards to health, in addition to the existing disease outbreaks like dengue, malaria, meningitis, hepatitis E, measles, cholera outbreak was declared on the 27th of June.

Yes, cholera is back and it's affecting several states, mainly in the western part of the country, the Darfur's and the corridor France, where the access is very limited.

Up to date with recorded more than 1330 cases with 114 deaths related to cholera.

This give us a case fertility rate of 13.7%, which is extremely high.

And of course, the rainy season is expected to worsen the situation.

As WHO, we are coordinating the cholera response by strength and surveillance, treatment, community engagement, distribution of supplies.

We were of course expecting cholera to come back.

So we as part of preparedness, we've repositioned more than 64 metric tonnes of cholera kids across Sudan to support the response.

But still the needs are are huge and we are expecting cholera to spread in different states.

We are particularly concerned about the spread to Aloha in North Kodofan where the access is very limited and where the fragile health system is under increasing strain.

Health facilities are overwhelmed there and access to care is very, very limited.

But beyond cholera in a lobby, we are deeply concerned about the broader humanitarian needs and growing protection risks.

As you as you know, and this is ECHO and what unfolded in Alfasher last year, unfortunately.

But of course, the situation is not better in other states.

Earlier this week I was in in Kosti with the in a joint mission with the WHOUNHCR, with my colleague, the UNHCR Assistant High Commissioner, and we visited internally displaced persons camps and refugee camps and surrounding communities in Kosti and White Nile.

In general, what we've witnessed is Inman's health needs placing enormous pressure on the health system, but also great commitment from health workers and from the health authorities there.

But to better respond to the needs of this population, it's we cannot just create a parallel system where we are responding to refugees and Idps separately from the Hostian community.

So it's very important to have an inclusive health response across Sudan.

But without adequate financing, neither partners nor the health system can meet the scale of the needs.

As I conclude my assignment in Sudan after two years and a half, I leave the the country convinced that despite all the challenges, Sudan's health system can recover.

It can recover stronger, more resilient and better equipped to meet the health needs of its people.

But we need support to do so.

When I arrived to Sudan in March 2024, commitment was our greatest assets.

Through the dedication of Sudan health leadership, health workers, WHO country team and partners, we've adopted and we've shown high level of flexibility and agility.

We've worked tirelessly to sustain the health system services in ever changing crisis.

But today, as I did the health, as I did the the country, the health sector recovery strategy is being launched.

So even amid the conflict, we are planning for recovery, rehabilitation, rebuilding.

That's a powerful sign of hope and all partners, HealthPartners, they are part of this, of this approach.

I close my remarks by renewing WH2's call for stronger international support.

Now more than halfway through throughout the year, WH2's commitment appeal for Sudan is less than 15% funded and we are at the 7th month of the year 2026.

Without additional resources, we cannot sustain the response to disease outbreaks, but we cannot even strengthen the health system to make it able to respond to the needs.

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, and your questions are most welcome back to you.

Alessandra, thank you very much for this remarks.

And just before I open the floor to question, I'd like to also add that we also reiterate our appeal for increased, timely and flexible funding.

The 2026 humanitarian response plan of the UN is less than 1/3 funded, having received 930 million.

That was up to yesterday out of the nearly $2.9 billion needed.

So it is, as Doctor Sabani said, an urgent appeal to all donors to fund our activities as a life saving activities in Sudan.

So I'll open the floor to questions now, if any.

I see Nina, Nina Larson, AFP Yes, hi, thank you for the briefing.

I was hoping you mentioned just at the end there about less than 15% funded.

I was wondering if you could provide the figures for that.

How much money have you asked for and how much have you received and what specifically will the impact be if if you're not able to to receive more, if you could provide some examples?

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Thank you for your question and for your interest in the health situation in Sudan.

Actually the the health sector in in Sudan is funded that less than 15%.

So for health we are asking for $325,000,000 and now it's funded at 35.2%.

But for WHO loan we are asking for 167,000,000 and we got until now 11% of the funding of the humanitarian funding.

But let me be frank with you, we have funding for development and we are trying to invest in strengthen the health system to be able to respond to all needs regardless of the status of the population, the refugees, IDPS, returnees or host population.

But strengthen the health system is just part of our approach, but we need to also to respond to acute, acute needs like cholera, what I mentioned before and the other outbreaks and malnutrition and so on.

And for that, we are funded only 11% as WHO, which is very, very low, noting that we are at the 7th month of 2026.

Thank you, over to you.

Thank you very much, Olivia Bodvant Reuters.

Thank you very much.

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You were raising concern about a little days.

Perhaps you could just give a bit more details about why particularly there you're you're increasingly concerned and perhaps you can kind of outline the what I understand to be pretty large access restraints.

I'm just not clear whether you can get any kind of access or whether currently there is 0 access into into the area.

And, and also just a very simple question.

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Has it, has it just been truly impossible to kind of reach the number of people you'd seek to reach in terms of helping shore kind of clean water supplies, etcetera?

Or was this almost inevitable?

Did you expect kind of cholera to come back given that the conditions are still as you said, they're so grave over so many months and and and a couple of years of of the conflict?

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Yeah, thank you very much.

So with regards to your first question on a obeyed, of course the situation continues to worsen with humanitarian warning that if risks become in the, there is the risk that it will become the secondary fresher or even even worse because as we know.

As fighters are ongoing, there is a limited access there.

We are struggling to deploy our staff but also the frontline workers to provide health services.

We are struggling to send supplies and we know that the UN Security Council has expressed concern over the imminent risk of mass atrocities and has demanded that immediate hubs to assault which may help us to to access this this area to do our situation analysis and also to respond adequately.

But as we we were expecting worsening the situation there, we already prepositioned supplies in a obeyed to able to meet the health needs of more than 25,000 people.

But I can admit that it's not enough in terms of preparedness.

We are trying to be prepared in the 18 states of the country, but at the end it's not enough due to the shortage of funding.

So as WHO, we call for respect of the subsidy of health and the protection of the health workers.

So we can we can access and we can respond, of course, the protection of health workers, but also the patients, the health facilities and assets as per the international humanitarian law.

But also we call for our partners and donors to help us to be able first, to access and send them to be able to send enough supplies and enough, enough facilities in Al al al Hobayed.

But we know that the situation there is very, very bad and it's worsening with high risk of disease outbreaks, malnutrition, violence, including violence against women and children, as it was mentioned by my colleague earlier.

Now with regards to your second, second question, it was about cholera.

I couldn't agree with you more.

Cholera, what I was mentioning now is just like the outbreak of the cholera, but we were expecting that because the situation, I mean all the ingredients in the country are there to have another third and 4th and 5th wave of cholera in terms of access, in terms of water and sanitation, in terms of displacement of people who may be infected and moving from one state to another.

So our role is to strengthen the health of the surveillance system which we call the E worse the early warning, alert and response system.

And through that system we can detect very early the cases and and respond before the outbreak spreads in all states.

And fortunately, again, access is a major, major issue to make us able to implement the warming system everywhere.

And 2nd, funding shortage is another issue to be able to preposition the cholera kids everywhere.

But also we are working very closely with our partners within UN and outside UN to address the other issues, which we call the social determinants of health, like water, sanitation, hygiene and so on, to be able to prevent and respond to any outbreak, including collar.

Thank you very much.

I think this was very clear.

I don't see other hands up.

So thank you very much.

Derek, you want to add anything?

No, we, we shared the notes by e-mail, so reporters should have them in their inbox.

OK, thank you very much.

So Doctor Sabani, thank you so much for this very important briefing.

And thanks to Tarek for coming.

I'll give now the floor to our colleagues from WMO.

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If you want to sit on on each side because of the freedom, yeah, please.

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You are coming with Miss Leilani Duderov, who is your Global Atmosphere Watch programme staff.

So I keep the floor first to you maybe.

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So good morning, everybody.

It feels like I come here every Friday to talk about extreme heat.

Please prepare for more next week.

If you are in Geneva, Meteosphere is forecasting it'll spike at 37° Celsius next Tuesday.

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Just to before we talk about sand and dust storms, I will just say a few words about the, the ongoing, the ongoing heat because it's obviously grabbing the, the headlines.

First of all, Western Europe, the Copernicus Climate Change Service, which is from the European Union, they issued their monthly figures for June yesterday and they said that Western Europe had its hottest tune on record, not the whole of Europe, the whole of Europe.

It was the second hottest tune globally.

It was the second hottest June globally.

However, sea surface temperatures were the highest on record.

So that is setting the scene for more heat unfortunately to come.

And so as as we've seen, we had this incredible heat wave in late June in large parts of Western Europe, the heat is continuing in as we move into July.

Just to give you a flavour, Spain's fabric observatory, which is one of WM OS long term observing stations, they've been, you know, monitoring and observing for more than a century.

They recorded 45 point, sorry, 40.5°C on the 8th of July.

That's the highest temperature there in more than one century of data.

Temperatures in Spain have widely been above 40°C this week.

France also is seeing extreme temperatures.

For instance, yesterday in Narbonne it was 41.2°C with very high very dangerously high overnight temperatures, which is when the body needs to cool down and relax.

Today Meteor France is issued a top danger to life red alert for 9 departments and tomorrow Saturday this will increase to 24 departments.

The heat, very dry soils, drought and low humidity have combined to lead to a fire, high fire danger level in many parts.

And unfortunately we are seeing, you know, quite devastating fires at the moment with very unfortunate, tragic loss of loss of life.

And particularly in Spain.

WM, the World Meteorological Organisation, you know, we do work closely with the World Health Organisation to try to mobilise heat health action plans to save lives and to protect livelihoods.

But this is, you know, very, very extreme heat wave was still only mid-july.

It's still relatively relatively early in, in in the summer.

So that's just to give you set set the scene.

But now what we're here to talk about today is the World Meteorological Organisation every year issues a an airborne dust bulletin.

This coincides with the International Day for protecting against sand and Dust Storms that takes place on the 12th of July.

And this afternoon in New York, there will be a summary, a ceremony to to commemorate that day.

So ahead of the the events we've, we've this morning issued our airborne dust bulletin.

In the room with me, I have Leilani Dulgarrov who's with our global atmospheric watch team and also joining us on Lee on Zoom.

She can't be with us.

In the room, unfortunately, is Sara Bazart, who is the coordinator of the bulletin and she is also one of the experts of WMO on wildfires, in case, in case you have questions on that.

So the figures that will be presenting today are for 2025, not not for this year.

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Over to you, Leilani.

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Today, the World Meteorological Organisation has released the 10th edition of the Airborne Dust Bulletin, which provides an annual assessment of major sand and dust storm events and advances in monitoring and forecasting.

Airborne dust is a truly global problem.

Dust emitted from major sources in North Africa, the Middle East and Asia can be transported thousands of kilometres.

It affects air quality, weather, climate, ecosystems, transportation, agriculture and public health.

The bulletin shows that global dust conditions in 2025 are comparable to those observed in 2024, but there are some large regional variations.

The world's most active dust stores remained the Beaudelay Depression in Chad.

Parts of the Middle East and Central Asia saw increased dust activity, coinciding with the with drought in several Asian regions.

In 2025, a widespread East Asian dust outbreak reached parts of southern China rarely affected by such events.

Inhalable particulate matter 10 levels reached 3000 to 4000 micrograms per cubic metre in northern China.

An exceptionally active dust season was also observed in the desert region along the border of Mexico and the United States.

Some locations had record-breaking concentrations of PM 10 and an unprecedented number of dust storm days.

Levels peaked at more than 8000 micrograms per cubic metre in El Paso, TX, forcing the closure of schools and airports.

For comparison, 45 micrograms per cubic metre is the 24 hour threshold considered by The Who Air Quality Guidelines.

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The bulletin also showcases important scientific advances, for instance in artificial intelligence and machine learning for dust forecasting.

This has the potential to provide faster and increasingly accurate forecasts.

These findings reinforce the importance of the WMO Sand and Dust Storm Warning Advisory and Assessment System initiative, which coordinates international research, observations, and operational forecasting activities.

The Airborne Dust Bulletin demonstrates that airborne dust is not only an environmental issue, but also a challenge for health, sustainable development, Disaster Risk Reduction and climate resilience.

We hope that it's findings will support both scientific progress and effective policy action worldwide.

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Thank you very much.

So your third colleague is just a question if there are questions.

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2 questions from me on on the dust, firstly, how, what, what is the impact of human activity on, on dust storms in terms of exacerbating the situation or the problem?

And secondly, 8000 micrograms in the air.

What does breathing in that kind of air actually do to you?

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I believe Sarah's Sarah Bazard who was the report coordinator is online to answer you.

Robin, Good morning, everyone.

Thanks for being here today.

There is a component that is coming from land and water management plus desertification that if you think in terms of human intervention, desertification, climate change is considered in this in this part of the discussion.

But still we are not sure about what is the contribution in this phenomenon that we monitored the last year in in Asia, about how much is land, land degradation or desertification versus changes in the atmospheric drivers.

Meaning how all these changes that we are monitoring with temperatures changing the sea surface temperatures that Claire mentioned before are affecting the currents of sand and DAS.

And this is ongoing research, by the way, it is also stressed in the bulletin, for example, that it's it's really the the season in the United States was really extreme.

And there is a lot of questions that now researchers tries to disentangle because remember, sun and dust, these land conditions plus atmospheric drivers.

Then we need to better understand what is the relation in between the land condition and senses in the global silk correlation patterns for more local phenomena.

And your second question, can you repeat it?

Because now I I'm not sure it was about the levels.

What are the health effects of breathing in the high levels of PM 10?

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In fact, PM 10 as Leilani mentioned it was it's related to the particles that are that you can in in a late it's the course fraction.

Then we have also the Yen 2.5 particles that are going deeper in your respiratory system and who is is having these air quality guidelines that is telling you a stressful where the high concentrations start to be at risk for your health.

These highlights these guidelines are stressing that for PM 10 that is this coarser inaluable fractions is 45 daily average.

In this case, we are talking about thousands of micrograms per cubic metre.

Then you can imagine that it's not just what you can breathe, it's also the reductions of visibility.

We're so strong few metres, then you have to stay at home.

Then it's not just a matter of health risks when you think in breathing is also stretching your eyes or your skin.

When you have this extreme events, you have to stay at home.

This is the recommendation.

Thank you very much, John.

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I was wondering, you just mentioned you liaise closely with The Who.

Have you been collecting data on the outbreak of dust storms and increases in meningitis especially in sub-saharan African countries, which is normally the case?

And have you seen any cases of meningitis outside of the sub-Saharan Africa?

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Thanks a lot for the question.

I cannot report about my anxiety cases because we are not having this.

This information at WMOI would invite someone on in WHO 2 can report on that.

But at the African agency is is releasing bulletins every two weeks on the state of cases of many anxiety teams to suckle and suckle.

They are using information coming from the WMO Dash regional centres.

In the case of the managed outbreaks, again I'm not having the numbers, we are not having health information unfortunately.

But again, I can point some colleges at WH so that can give you this information.

But one of the things that is important in these meningitis seasons is the vaccination campaigns.

Then somehow it's not just the dust that that is a proxy on the spread of the meningitis is also how the health authorities are managing the vaccination campaigns and to avoid the spread that again, I will say that if you want exact numbers, it's better to ask Akhmat as African Regional Agency or W2 to just to, just to conclude on, on that.

I mean, obviously the meningitis belt in Africa, it is a very well known phenomenon.

There has been quite a lot of progress in trying to deal with this, with this problem.

So what the meteorological authorities do is to try to provide the, the, the forecasts, the information to enable the health authorities to, to, to act to act on that.

And vaccinations obviously is, is a very important part of that.

I'm looking at that in case I don't really have any any figures it is due to to dust.

But John, I'll ask around colleagues and come back to you.

Thank you very much.

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Just on the wildfires in Spain, what can we say about the the underlying weather conditions in the part that that might have played in, in setting the scene for such deadly wildfires?

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I can, I can start and then maybe Sarah can pick up.

Obviously Spain and southern France have seen very, very high elevated temperatures.

There are very, you know, very dry soils because because of the, the, the drought and certainly this week, there's been low humidity.

All of this leads to an increase in the risk of fires.

You know, there are many, many warnings at the moment.

Meteo Francis issuing warnings of, you know, elevated fire risk.

The actual causes of individual fires vary.

You know, sometimes it's dry lightning, which I don't think has been the case with this particular set of wildfires.

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Sometimes, you know, dropping a match.

Sometimes it can be arson.

Sometimes it can be electrical, electrical faults.

So, you know, we, and obviously Land Management does play a role in this.

The amount of vegetation that's already present, which, you know, can act as fuel for fires also plays a role.

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Improved forecasts of fire, of fire risks, but it's still work in progress.

I don't know if Sarah wants to say anything else on that.

Yeah, apart from from what Claire was mentioned.

Just be aware that here again is the health source and the fire authorities, the national authorities and the investment in these more black separation and preparedness for the fire season.

Unfortunately this year if you are going to the monitoring of a thief fires that we have, there are many and this is at the same time and this is something that the national authorities are mentioned that every time that the huge number of fires at the same time is is giving them a lot of difficulties to handle all fires at the same time.

Then you know, Spain, there are some regions that are having a special headquarters to to because they are, it's super active and they have to manage many, many different fires at the same time.

Then another factor here is how the national authorities can manage the resources to fight against the fire.

But it's true that the metrological conditions are not ideal and obviously the risk is very high.

Thank you very much.

Any other question for our colleagues, Gabriemo, don't see any other hand up.

But before I let you go, I just wanted to add that in addition to being the International Day of combating sand and dust storms, the 12th of July.

So it's International Day of Hope, which is a commodity that we really need at the moment.

So thank you very much to our colleagues.

In fact, they, you don't even need to go because that's concludes our briefing for the moment.

I have no announcements today for you.

So unless you have any question to me to ask, I thank you all very much.

Wish you a very good weekend.

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Oh, sorry, there is a question.

I don't know if it's for you or for me, and it comes from Gorky.

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Thank you very much for for participating.

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I'll see you on Tuesday.

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UN Geneva Press Briefing - 10 July 2026