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The United Nations COP28 Climate Change Conference in Dubai is an opportunity to reflect on what these large, costly, and carbon-intensive international summits aim to achieve. Instead of being cynical exercises in pointless pageantry, such...

NEW DELHI — The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai is an opportunity to reflect on what these large, costly, and carbon-intensive international summits aim to achieve. Instead of being cynical exercises in pointless pageantry, such gatherings could serve as platforms for advancing the transformative changes required to mitigate the worst effects of

Generation17 young leader Daniel Calarco shares his insights from the historic Stockholm+50 international conference on the environment.

Jayati Ghosh says more… The resulting currency devaluations have caused the price levels of essential goods to remain high, with food- and fuel-importing countries, including in the developed world, facing the biggest cost pressures

Jayati Ghosh says more… The resulting currency devaluations have caused the price levels of essential goods to remain high, with food- and fuel-importing countries, including in the developed world, facing the biggest cost pressures

The UN Secretary-General has encountered resistance to many of the ideas for strengthening international peace and security he laid out in a July policy brief. Achieving consensus on large-scale multilateral reform will be hard, but a summit in 2024 is a focus for limited innovation.

Welcome to the Tenth Annual Subcommittee meeting of the Committee of Permanent Representatives. These subcommittee meetings are hugely important, as they allow UNEP, Member States and other stakeholders to dig deep on ways to adjust and strengthen our mutually reinforcing support.

Over the past decade, two influential communities have come to the realisation that the large bulk of the fossil fuel-driven infrastructure we now depend on for our urban-centred modes of living will need to be replaced. They took 250 years to build and must be replaced in 40. 

UN Secretary-General António Guterres proposed myriad solutions to the world’s biggest challenges during this year’s High-Level Week.

Global leaders issued a resounding call for reform and renewed multilateral cooperation during the General Assembly’s crunch week, the UN chief told top diplomats meeting in New York on Wednesday.