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Can innovation save the planet? (Dan Peleschuk, Atlantic Council)

The twenty-sixth United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP26) on climate change kicked off this week with major pledges to end deforestation and reduce methane emissions. But...

The G20 risks becoming a mini-UN. That’s a bad thing (Hung Tran, Atlantic Council)

The Group of Twenty (G20) nations came of age during the great financial crisis of 2008 to hash out major economic and financial regulatory...

The Urgent Need to End the Conflict in Ethiopia (US Department of State)

As the conflict in Ethiopia marks a full year, Ethiopian leaders – both inside and outside government and from across the country – face...

State Department’s Clean Energy Demand Initiative Brings Together Companies and Countries to Meet Clean Energy Goals (US Department of State)

Today at the 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, the Office of the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate and the Bureau of Energy...

UN experts call for protection of trafficked workers from Viet Nam in Saudi Arabia (UN News)

Some women and girls being recruited in Viet Nam to serve as domestic workers in Saudi Arabia, are suffering sexual abuse and torture, leading a group of UN independent human...

‘Dramatic’ boost needed in climate adaptation: UN environment agency (UN News)

Although policies and planning for climate change adaptation are increasing, financing and implementation lag behind, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) said in a new...

Ordinary Afghans ‘broke and broken’, warns UN migration agency chief (UN News)

A stark warning for the people of Afghanistan has been issued by UN migration agency chief António Vitorino who on Thursday said that ongoing conflict, grinding...

World food prices reach highest level in more than a decade (UN News)

The UN barometer of world food prices has surged to a new peak, reaching its highest level since July 2011, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) announced this Thursday. World food prices reach highest level in...

‘Energy day’at COP26: Voices call out for an end to use of coal, gas and oil (UN News)

Fittingly, the sun broke through the clouds over Glasgow on Thursday as delegations and participants prepared for ‘energy day’ at COP26, one of the...

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