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

• 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 and Environment, Secretary-General

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Reading the US Presidential Tea Leaves: Do the Candidates Even Care About the UN?

Jeffrey Laurenti

• January 29, 2020

President Trump was at the United Nations last fall telling world leaders that “the future does not belong to globalists” when Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the United States House of Representatives would launch an inquiry into his possible impeachment. It was the same General Assembly whose derisive laughter at Trump’s boast a year before …

US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations

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Kelly Knight Craft, Trump’s Pick for UN Envoy, Is Knee-Deep in Coal, So Is That a Problem?

Irwin Arieff

• March 12, 2019

It’s easy to figure out why Donald Trump picked Kelly Knight Craft to be his ambassador to the United Nations. She and her husband, Joseph Craft III, a billionaire coal baron, showered the president and his Republican Party with millions in campaign contributions in 2016. (A business consultant before she became a diplomat, she’s …

US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations

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Climate Talks Bypass the Poorest, Who Endure Polluted Homes

Barbara Crossette

• December 18, 2018

Today and every day around the world, in bleak rural villages and the poorest urban neighborhoods, millions of people are igniting small fires to cook their meager meals, brighten dark homes or scare away intruders at night. The number of people using small fires is not small. Climate scientists estimate that three billion people …

Africa, Asia, Climate and Environment

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WORLDVIEWS

To Save the Earth, Deepen Incentives for a Carbon-Free World

Franz Baumann

• October 6, 2018

When United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres spoke passionately about the frightening prospect of a climate catastrophe recently, he called it “the defining issue of our time.” Everything in his powerful speech was backed by science. Yet, because secretaries-general cannot say everything, it was incomplete. What Guterres did not say is that global warming is the flip side …

Climate and Environment, WORLDVIEWS

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Trump on the UN: ‘I Saw Great Potential Right Across the Street’

Kacie Candela

• September 18, 2017

In a much-anticipated gathering, the United States led a high-level meeting on United Nations reform on Sept. 18, with President Donald Trump and UN Secretary-General António Guterres speaking to the assembled world leaders. Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the UN, also spoke briefly; in Trump’s entourage was his chief of staff, John Kelly, …

UNGA72, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations

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Paris Pact Staying Alive: Christiana Figueres’s New Role and More Data on Climate Change

Barbara Crossette

• July 9, 2017

Christiana Figueres, who piloted the Paris Agreement on Climate Change through years of negotiations to success in December 2015, will become chair of The Lancet Countdown’s high-level advisory board, the British medical publication announced recently. The Countdown project was established in November 2016 to monitor the effects of climate change on health and track …

Climate and Environment, Health and Population, Take a Look

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Raising the Climate Change Battle to Geoengineer the Earth

Barbara Crossette

• March 9, 2017

The 2015 Paris agreement on climate change, which came into force in 2016, commits nearly every nation in the world to lowering greenhouse gas emissions, a first major step toward global consensus and cooperation on combating climate change after years of United Nations-led negotiations. But environmental scientists have moved on, asking this question: What …