Sustainability
Monday’s Daily Brief: COP25, African debt, cost of Israeli occupation, UN worker’s world record
COP25: Guterres calls for ‘path of resolve, sustainable solutions’ Resolve, sustainable solutions and zero carbon emissions by 2050, are essential...
Plants, the ‘core basis for life on Earth’, under increasing threat, warns UN food agency
More people than ever rely on fisheries and aquaculture for food, and income, but the seafood industry is facing a...
UN ‘determined to lead by example’ on disability rights: Guterres
This year, in June, the UN chief launched a Disability Inclusion Strategy, to raise the Organization’s standards and performance. It...
Only one in five countries has a healthcare strategy to deal with climate change
In its first global review of more than 100 countries, the UN agency found that while around half of them...
Decade ending 2019 likely to be hottest on record
The agency also finds that 2019 is on track to be the second or third warmest year in history, with...
FROM THE FIELD: India’s plastic waste revolution
Waste collectors, or ragpickers as they are known more colloquially in the cities of Bhopal and Indore, in Madhya Pradesh...
COP25 Kicks Off with Calls to Make Serious Progress on Climate Action
2 December 2019 – The UN Climate Change Conference COP25 in Madrid (to 13 December) kicked off today, with urgent calls...
Political solution ‘long overdue’ to protect the children of eastern Ukraine
Eastern Ukraine has become one of the most mine-contaminated places on earth, despite recent developments aimed to protect the rights...
COP25: ‘Signals of hope’ multiplying in face of global climate crisis, insists UN chief Guterres
“My message here today is one of hope not of despair” said UN chief António Guterres addressing journalists at a...
Is the world ready to end the coal era and embrace clean energy?
But, despite the United Nations calling urgently for an end to fossil fuels, hundreds of new coal-fired power stations are...
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