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UN General Assembly begins amid conflict in Ukraine, climate disasters, and global divisions. Only President Biden and Ukraine's President Zelensky will attend.
(Reuters) -U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told a climate summit of leaders at the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday that time was running out to tackle climate change, thanks in part to the "naked greed" of fossil fuel interests. With the two-week U.N. climate summit, COP28, due to start on Nov. 29 in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, Guterres implored national policymakers to phase out climate-warming fossil fuels.
/PRNewswire/ -- A High-Level UNGA consultative session on international finance and energy transition diplomacy, which included sitting and former Heads of...
The just-concluded G20 summit in New Delhi attracted as much attention for who was not there – Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping – as for the discussions among those who showed up. While India, which has worked hard to position itself as a unifying diplomatic force and a spokesperson of the Global South, managed to secure consensus on a final declaration, this was no easy feat, owing not least to disagreements over how to refer to the Ukraine war.
China's position as a leader in the global south is being challenged by a rising India. India, under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is presenting itself as a different kind of leader for developing countries, one that is less domineering and more supportive. India's recent success in persuading the United States and Europe to focus on the concerns of poorer countries at the G20 summit is evidence of its growing influence.