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New Pressures Are Shaping Environmental Debates, a Leader Says

Barbara Crossette

• June 5, 2021

For half a century, Gus Speth has been at the forefront of the global environmental movement as an adviser on environment policy to two United States presidents, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, and then administrator of the United Nations Development Program, under Boutros Boutros-Ghali and Kofi Annan. Speth was also a civil society leader …

BOOKS, Climate and Environment

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The UN Moves Toward ‘Climate Neutrality,’ but Is It Fast Enough?

• February 18, 2020

The United Nations system has instituted some important changes toward becoming what it calls climate neutral. Some employees and former employees, however, think the UN could be doing much more to reduce the organization’s carbon footprint globally and to be a stronger role model in mitigating climate change. After all, Secretary-General António Guterres recently …

Climate and Environment, Secretary-General

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