Cooperation key to weathering climate crisis, growing inequality, new tech challenge: Guterres — Global Issues

Cooperation key to weathering climate crisis, growing inequality, new tech challenge: Guterres — Global Issues

ByNews Polite

António Guterres was addressing the Council of The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), the world’s largest regional security body in terms of landmass and population which currently includes China, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and new member Iran. The UN has had a cooperation agreement with the Asia-focused SCO…

Building bridges between Afghanistan and the world because ‘isolation is not an option’ — Global Issues

Building bridges between Afghanistan and the world because ‘isolation is not an option’ — Global Issues

ByNews Polite

Since then, as international funding has stalled amid skepticism about the Taliban’s return, the UN has been acting as the world’s “eyes and ears” in Afghanistan. After shifting mainly to humanitarian work, UN agencies and partners are finding ways to help the long-suffering population meet basic needs and preserve hard-won…

What is China’s Volt Typhoon? And How Can It Be Stopped?

What is China’s Volt Typhoon? And How Can It Be Stopped?

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BOTTOM LINE UP FRONT – A stealthy Chinese-sponsored hacking group that blends into normal home office networks and has been pursuing efforts to disrupt critical infrastructure between the United States and Asia does not require a hugely sophisticated effort to thwart its malicious activity, a top Microsoft official said.    “If you…

Women in Peru’s Poor Urban Areas Combat the Crisis at the Cost of Their Wellbeing — Global Issues

Women in Peru’s Poor Urban Areas Combat the Crisis at the Cost of Their Wellbeing — Global Issues

ByNews Polite

While cooking on one side of her wooden tin-roofed house, Mercedes Marcahuachi describes her long day’s work to meet the needs of her household and of the soup kitchen where she serves 150 daily rations at the low price of 80 cents of a dollar, in one of the settlements…

A Disease of the Poor Begs For Rich Funding — Global Issues

A Disease of the Poor Begs For Rich Funding — Global Issues

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A public awareness banner about tuberculosis on a fence in the Hope Fountain area, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Credit: Busani Bafana/IPS by Busani Bafana (bulawayo) Monday, July 03, 2023 Inter Press Service BULAWAYO, Jul 03 (IPS) – The United Nations General Assembly is convening a high-level meeting on Tuberculosis (TB) to get a…

International Maritime Organization meets to discuss shipping emission curbs

International Maritime Organization meets to discuss shipping emission curbs

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Comment on this storyComment LONDON — In a clubby mid-rise on the River Thames, its lobby filled with models of container ships and oil tankers, a rather obscure United Nations group is gathering this week to make a momentous decision that will influence whether the world can meet its promise…

Cooperation key to weathering climate crisis, growing inequality, new tech challenge: Guterres — Global Issues

‘Don’t leave the climate crisis for our children to fix’ — Global Issues

ByNews Polite

“We must not leave this for our children to fix – no matter how inspiring their activism,” he told the Human Rights Council, advocating for a “just transition” to a green economy. “I ask every member of this Council to take this clear message out of the Palais des Nations…

Cooperation key to weathering climate crisis, growing inequality, new tech challenge: Guterres — Global Issues

Europe’s largest nuclear power plant regains back-up electricity feed — Global Issues

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“While the reconnection of the back-up power line is positive, the plant’s external power situation remains highly vulnerable, underlining the precarious nuclear safety and security situation at the site,” Mr. Grossi said. Much needed back-up According to IAEA, the plant’s connection to the single remaining 330 kilovolt (kV) power line…

Global shipping poised to get new emissions-fighting strategy — Global Issues

Global shipping poised to get new emissions-fighting strategy — Global Issues

ByNews Polite

“Humanity is in dangerous waters on climate,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in a video message at the start of MPEC’s latest session. “Science tells us it is still possible to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 °C, but it requires an immense and immediate global effort, and shipping, which…