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Trending UN News: Week Ending Dec. 2

• 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 is gathered from UN press briefings, PassBlue reporting and other sources. This week, we zero …

Climate Change, General Assembly, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Migration, SDGs, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN, US-UN Relations

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Climate Justice Finally Arrives Through the New Global Loss and Damage Fund

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 impacts of global warming have become more frequent and ferocious. Those who have contributed the …

Climate Change, SDGs, WORLDVIEWS

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Trending UN News: Week Ending Nov. 25

• 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 from UN press briefings, PassBlue reporting and other sources. This week, the UN Secretary-General António …

Africa, Climate Change, Gender Violence, General Assembly, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, This Week @UN, Ukraine-Russia War

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Trending UN News: Week Ending Nov. 18

• 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 reporting and other sources. This week, we looked at the terrible news coming out of …

Africa, Climate Change, General Assembly, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN, UN Peacekeeping

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At COP27, Russia Shows Up With Oil Lobbyists and Demands Sanctions Relief

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 to leverage its commitments on reducing carbon emission in exchange for Western sanctions relief imposed …

Climate Change, Ukraine-Russia War

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Trending UN News: Week Ending Nov. 11

• 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 reporting and other sources. This week, we look at conversations led by UN Secretary-General António …

Africa, Asia, Climate Change, Gender Violence, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN, Ukraine-Russia War

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How Well Can the UN Development Program Manage Global Climate Funding?

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 2010 to 2017 and was meant to improve energy efficiency in Russia, but internal reviews …

Climate Change, Development

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COP26 President Fights Back Tears as the Summit Ends

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 history.” And until India insisted otherwise at the eleventh hour, it looked like the summit …

Climate Change

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Who Is the World’s Greatest Climate Champion?

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 the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi and a delegation of 16 fellow Congressional Democrats …

Climate Change, US-UN Relations

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The UN Refugee Agency’s Bold Plan to Manage the Crisis of Climate Migrants

• 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 of displacement. In a first for the agency, it has begun considering whether international refugee …

Human Rights, Refugees, US Foreign Relations

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A Top German Court Toughens the Nation’s Climate Goals, Requiring Explicit Details

• 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 Germany the first country in the world with a greenhouse gas neutrality plan. By 2030, …

Climate Change, WORLDVIEWS

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Meet the 20-Somethings Advising the UN Chief on How to Save Planet Earth

• December 11, 2020

HAARLEM, The Netherlands — A group of young advisers has been counseling United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on climate change as he ramps up warnings of impending “climate calamity” and declares that protecting nature is the “defining task of the 21st century.” The secretary-general’s Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change, consisting of seven 18- …

Climate Change, Secretary-General

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Humanity Faces Climate ‘Suicide’ if US Doesn’t Rejoin the Paris Deal: UN Chief

Mark Hertsgaard

• December 2, 2020

“The way we are moving is a suicide,” United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said in an interview on Monday, and humanity’s survival will be “impossible” without the United States rejoining the Paris Agreement and achieving “net zero” carbon emissions by 2050, as the incoming Biden administration has pledged. The secretary-general said that “of course” …

Climate Change, Secretary-General

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Cooperate on Climate Now or We’re Doomed, UN Secretary-General Warns

Dulcie Leimbach

• September 8, 2020

The United Nations secretary-general, António Guterres, spoke extensively with Covering Climate Now, a consortium of hundreds of international media, including PassBlue. This interview, held recently with Agence France-Presse, focuses on the dangers of major countries and investors clinging to the use of fossil fuels and not moving fast enough toward renewable energy, as well …

Climate Change, Secretary-General

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10 Ways to Push the Climate Change and Conflict Agenda, Despite the Deniers

Adriana Erthal Abdenur

• February 19, 2019

THE HAGUE — It is now well documented that global warming is a multiplier of insecurity and conflict, but holding debates on the topic presents ever-more complex challenges as multilateralism and climate change are increasingly questioned if not dismissed by some of the world’s top leaders and biggest polluting nations. In that light, here …

Climate Change, SDGs, WORLDVIEWS

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