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emissions — 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 […]

What is in the latest UN Emissions Gap Report 2018? – #emissionsGap

This entry was posted in Climate Change environment science and tagged #emissionsGap COP24 emissions Katowice UN on November 29, 2018 by Dave

1.5C — 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 […]

Has the UN Special Report into 1.5C been leaked? #SR15

This entry was posted in Climate Change news science and tagged #SR15 1.5C special report UN on June 19, 2018 by Dave

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 […]

The UN Human Rights Council is seriously flawed

This entry was posted in Activism politics society and tagged abuses human rights UN UNHRC on January 16, 2017 by Dave

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 […]

UN Human Rights – Making the Poachers the Gamekeepers

This entry was posted in Activism politics society and tagged human rights Saudi Arabia UN UNHRC on October 30, 2016 by Dave

This is a story from last June, so it is not a new event. I would however like to highlight it because it is an important issue, and I’m also prompted to write about it because right now the 71st Session of the UN General Assembly is taking place. Back last […]

How Saudi Arabia successfully blackmailed the UN

This entry was posted in Activism politics and tagged Ban Ki-Moon human rights Saudi Arabia UN on September 20, 2016 by Dave

The latest bit of news to emerge from the UN Human Rights council is that Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has been issuing tweets in which he made some truly bizarre claims. What exactly is this economic “Urgent Threat” that he is babbling about, and in what […]

UN Human Rights council has become a complete farce

This entry was posted in Activism People politics and tagged human rights UN UNHRC Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein on September 8, 2016 by Dave