1st session of the IDM 2021
25-27 May 2021, Zoom, 9:00-12:00 EST
Background
Since 2001, IDM has provided a multitude of stakeholders worldwide with a platform for timely debates on a full range of migration issues and their linkages with other policy domains.
This year, the International Dialogue on Migration (IDM) will convene its 20
th edition on the topic of migration, the environment and climate change. Ten years later after the first IDM session dedicated to the emerging nexus between the migration, environment and climate change IOM is revisiting the topic at a time of increasing political urgency, and in view of the deep impacts of the COVID-19 global health crisis linking climate and migration to current and future development issues.
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The Korea Times and Hankook Ilbo Chairman Seung Myung-ho, front row second from right, and former U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, second from left, walk to an outdoor stage at the Cultural Depot Park in Seoul s Mapo District where the Korea Forum 2021, co-hosted by the two dailies, took place Wednesday. From left are main opposition People Power Party floor leader Rep. Kim Gi-hyeon, Ban, National Assembly Speaker Park Byeong-seug, Seung, and Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon. Korea Times photo by Hong In-ki
By Jun Ji-hye
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic may be the last warning from nature that is urging humanity to respond immediately to the climate crisis, former U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday.
How The UK Can Lead The World In Sustainable Supply Chains
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Britain leads the world in the drive to decarbonise. The U.K. government has announced that the UK will cut its carbon emissions by 78 percent by 2035 compared with 1990 levels and its Carbon Budget shines a light on supply chains by incorporating the UK’s share of international aviation and shipping emissions. In the private sector British businesses account for a third of the more than 2,000 companies that have signed up globally to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s
Race to Zero.
Technologies like IoT, 5G, blockchain, and advanced analytics help business bring data across complex supply chains for sustainable business.
May 12, 2021
Wood pellets are burned as a form of biomass energy, or bioenergy, and are touted as a carbon neutral energy source.
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With the U.S. back in the Paris Agreement, and with governments across the country evaluating how they can cut carbon emissions, a question remains about one contentious carbon neutral energy source: Wood pellets.
Wood pellets are burned as a form of biomass energy, or bioenergy, and are touted as a carbon neutral energy source in the global transition away from fossil fuels. It became an energy staple for European countries in 2009 when the European Union set goals to cut carbon emissions by 20 percent of 1990 levels by 2020. In 2019, the EU accounted for about 75 percent of global wood pellet consumption.
Twenty-Fourth Meeting of the Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR), Virtual, 6-7 May 2021
COMMUNIQUÉ
THE Twenty-Fourth Meeting of the Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR) of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) was held virtually on the 6-7 May 2021, under the Chairmanship of the Honourable Eamon Courtenay, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belize.
COORDINATION OF FOREIGN POLICY
CARICOM Foreign Minister re-emphasised the importance for the Region to speak with one voice through the coordination of foreign policy, and the need to find new and more effective ways to strengthen the existing coordination mechanisms while recognising the sovereign right of Member States. It was noted that there continues to be successful coordination but the increasing complexity of international issues requires that it be enhanced. In that regard, the COFCOR agreed to increase the frequency of its meetings. This would enable Ministers to address in a timely fashion new devel