Biodiversity – We need to Leverage Joined up thinking
New UN Report: Conserving 30 per cent of land in strategic locations will help both the climate and also the biodiversity challenges we face.
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Report: “Urgent Action on Climate Adaptation needed”
An international commission that is focused on climate Adaptation and is led by Ban Ki-moon, 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations, Bill Gates, Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Kristalina Georgieva, CEO, World Bank, has just published a new report that calls for urgent action on climate. Who wrote it? The Global … Read more
What is in the latest UN Emissions Gap Report 2018? – #emissionsGap
Next Sunday on 2nd December 2018 the next UN Climate Change conference starts. It runs from 2-14 Dec in Katowice, Poland. This is the international body that pulled together what is commonly referred to as the Paris Agreement, and so this conference is all part of that roadmap. As input for this conference, the UN 2018 … Read more
Has the UN Special Report into 1.5C been leaked? #SR15
Regarding the “leak” of the UN Special Report into 1.5C, er no, it is not really a leak. Various media outlets have published an article regarding this “Leaked” copy of the UN’s special report into limiting global warming to 1.5C. This is officially supposed to be issued later this year and hence a review draft … Read more
The UN Human Rights Council is seriously flawed
With a Hat Tip to UN Watch, I’d like to introduce you to some of the 2017 members of the U.N. Human Rights Council. The background context here is that nations are selected to sit on this council for a period of three years, and a total of 47 nations have a seat. Who are some … Read more
UN Human Rights – Making the Poachers the Gamekeepers
The United Nations has a Human Rights council, but of course you knew that. If you check out their site, there they lay out what they are there for in very plain terms … The Human Rights Council is an inter-governmental body within the United Nations system made up of 47 States responsible for the promotion and … Read more