Window to reach climate goals ‘rapidly closing’, UN report warns — Global Issues

Window to reach climate goals ‘rapidly closing’, UN report warns — Global Issues

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Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) which issued the report, called for “greater ambition and accelerating action”. “I urge governments to carefully study the findings of the report and ultimately understand what it means for them and the ambitious action they must take…

Window to reach climate goals ‘rapidly closing’, UN report warns — Global Issues

UN chief hails SE Asia for vital role ‘building bridges of understanding’ — Global Issues

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António Guterres was speaking in Jakarta, Indonesia, at the opening of the ASEAN-United Nations Summit, addressing Member States of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and declaring “our partnership is more important than ever.” Tests ‘as far as eye can see’ The international community faces tests “as far as the…

UNESCO calls for regulations on AI use in schools — Global Issues

UNESCO calls for regulations on AI use in schools — Global Issues

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The agency is also calling for guardrails on data protection and user privacy. Publicly available GenAI tools, such as ChatGPT, can produce automated text, images, videos, music and software code. The platforms have evolved rapidly and are already in use by hundreds of millions around the world, including many students….

Reimagining our global organization for a world in flux — Global Issues

Reimagining our global organization for a world in flux — Global Issues

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This transformation in skills and culture, encapsulated in the Secretary-General’s vision of a UN 2.0, is focused on fostering cutting-edge capabilities in data, digital, innovation, foresight and behavioural science – to deliver stronger results, better Member State support, and faster progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals. During a roundtable with…

Window to reach climate goals ‘rapidly closing’, UN report warns — Global Issues

5 ways to power the transition to renewable energy — Global Issues

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Renewable technologies like wind and solar power are, in most cases, cheaper than the fossil fuels that are driving climate change, but the world needs to prioritize the transformation of energy systems to renewable energy. The Climate Ambition Summit, scheduled for 20 September at UN Headquarters in New York, will…

Window to reach climate goals ‘rapidly closing’, UN report warns — Global Issues

Latest Russian attack ‘another example’ of civilian suffering — Global Issues

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Other Russian strikes damaged schools and homes in the Zaporizhzhya region, and port and grain infrastructure in the Odesa region. “I am shattered by the news of a series of attacks that today, once again, have left a path of death and destruction in different parts of Ukraine,” Denise Brown,…

Window to reach climate goals ‘rapidly closing’, UN report warns — Global Issues

Guterres leads call to make Africa ‘a renewable energy superpower’ — Global Issues

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Secretary-General António Guterres was addressing the African Climate Summit in Nairobi, Kenya, noting that despite “extreme heat, ferocious floods, and tens of thousands dead from devastating droughts”, the continent was responsible for less than four per cent of emissions. “The blow inflicted on development is all around with growing hunger…

Window to reach climate goals ‘rapidly closing’, UN report warns — Global Issues

Record civilian cluster munitions victims as experts urge global ban — Global Issues

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The CMC 2023 report indicates that 1,172 people were killed or injured in 2022, which is the highest number since regular reporting started in 2010. Speaking to journalists in Geneva, Human Rights Arms Advocacy Director Mary Wareham, emphasised that 95 per cent of casualties reported were civilians. “It is unconscionable…