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- Damilola Banjo
- • February 17, 2023
This week, we focus on the rising humanitarian crises in the world as the situation in Türkiye and Syria deepens. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from…
- Categories: This Week @UN, Ukraine-Russia War
- Damilola Banjo
- • February 6, 2023
Malta is in charge of the Security Council this month, the first time in 39 years that the tiny Mediterranean nation is back in the chamber as an elected member. As an island, it’s appropriate that Malta is scheduling…
- Maurizio Guerrero
- • January 2, 2023
At least a dozen United Nations member states, along with Latin American and Caribbean countries, oppose a plan by a global body to issue the first-ever license to a nation to explore minerals in the deep seabed in 2023….
- Categories: Climate Change, Latin America
- Damilola Banjo
- • December 6, 2022
Ruchira Kamboj, India’s ambassador to the United Nations, said the Security Council could no longer afford to delay being more reflective of the diversity of the UN “wider membership” if it wants to remain relevant. The South Asian country…
- Categories: Asia, Climate Change, Peace and Security, Security Council Presidency, Terrorism
- Damilola Banjo
- • December 2, 2022
This week, we focus on the issues of intensifying violence in the Mideast raised separately by UN special envoys in the Security Council. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information…
- Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
- • November 30, 2022
The decision at COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, to establish a fund to assist developing countries address loss and damage from the adverse impacts of climate change was a momentous signal of hope for humanity and the planet. The…
- Categories: Climate Change, SDGs, WORLDVIEWS
- Damilola Banjo
- • November 25, 2022
This week, we focus on climate commitments made at the just-concluded COP27 as well as the UN Environment Program honoring activists. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered…
- Damilola Banjo
- • November 18, 2022
It’s a sad one this week as two girls were beheaded in a camp in Syria. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from UN press briefings, PassBlue…
- Anastasiia Carrier
- • November 15, 2022
Russia’s war in Ukraine is casting a long shadow on the debates and negotiations at the United Nations climate change conference, known as COP27, happening now in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Russia has been using its participation at the forum…
- Categories: Climate Change, Ukraine-Russia War
- Damilola Banjo
- • November 11, 2022
This week, world leaders are gathering in Egypt to renew their commitments to sustainable climate conditions. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from UN press briefings, PassBlue…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Climate Change, Gender Violence, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN, Ukraine-Russia War
- Anna Bianca Roach
- • February 7, 2022
The United Nations Development Program is still facing calls for accountability regarding the reported mismanagement of a project that aimed to mitigate climate change and was funded by a primary entity in the UN system. The project ran from…
- Categories: Climate Change, Development
- Mark Hertsgaard
- • November 15, 2021
GLASGOW, Scotland — COP26 president Alok Sharma held back tears as he accepted India’s last-minute motion to weaken the summit’s pledge to “phase out” coal. Sharma had been saying for months that he wanted COP26 to “consign coal to…
- Categories: Climate Change
- Mark Hertsgaard
- • November 10, 2021
GLASGOW, Scotland — It’s an article of faith in United States political and media circles that American leadership is essential to global climate progress. That message was repeated Tuesday at the United Nations climate conference, COP26, as speaker of…
- Categories: Climate Change, US-UN Relations
- Dali ten Hove
- • August 1, 2021
As the world inches closer to catastrophic global heating and vulnerable communities from Mali to Myanmar are already suffering the consequences, the United Nations Refugee Agency has been grappling with the growing role of climate change as a driver…
- Categories: Human Rights, Refugees, US Foreign Relations
- Franz Baumann
- • May 25, 2021
In September 2016, the German parliament unanimously adopted the Paris Agreement. The government then translated Germany’s commitments under the agreement into a Climate Protection Law, which was approved by the Bundestag in November 2019 with a wide majority, making…
- Categories: Climate Change, WORLDVIEWS
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