Tag: Global Topics

COP26: More than 100 countries pledge to end deforestation by 2030 (Al Jazeera)

More than 100 countries promised to halt and reverse forest loss and land degradation by the end of 2030, underpinned by $19bn in public...

Climate Change Is a Health Crisis (Julia Gillard, Project-Syndicate)

The threat COVID-19 poses to human health is now well understood around the world. In contrast, the enormous health threat of global warming, with...

Will This COP Be Different? (Kenneth Rogoff, Project-Syndicate)

Limiting global warming to 1.5º Celsius remains just about attainable, but the path to this target is formidable. The United Nations climate summit now...

Leaders must commit to green finance at COP26 to avoid climate catastrophe (Christoph Nedopil Wang, East Asia Forum)

Greening finance will be front and centre at the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change...

World leaders urged to prioritize action on water and climate (UN News)

Countries must step up urgent action to address the water-related consequences of climate change, the head of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and nine...

Security Council adopts ‘first of its kind’ resolution on protecting classrooms from conflict (UN News)

Acting unanimously on Friday, the Security Council adopted a unique resolution strongly condemning attacks against schools, children and teachers and urging conflict parties to...

‘Serious risk’ COP26 may not deliver, warns Guterres, urging more climate action (UN News)

Secretary-General António Guterres warned that current Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), formal government commitments to progressively ambitious climate actions, still condemn the world to a “calamitous” 2.7 degrees...

Status check: Managing debt sustainability and development priorities through a ‘Big Push’ (Homi Kharas and Meagan Dooley, Brookings)

Emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) have seen development prospects fade in the two years since the onset of COVID-19. Growth turned negative in...

What to expect around education at COP26 (Christina Kwauk, Brookings)

For the first two weeks of November, all eyes will be on Glasgow as the much-anticipated COP26—the 26th Conference of the Parties to the...

Around the halls: Examining the impact of what does (or doesn’t) happen at COP26 (Amar Bhattacharya, David Dollar, Vanda Felbab-Brown, Jeremy Greenwood, Samantha Gross,...

The 26th U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP26) is scheduled to take place in Glasgow from October 31 to November 12, under the co-presidency of...

Mobilità sostenibile: le strategie degli operatori e delle città per ripartire (Federico Montanaro, Agenda Digitale)

Digitalizzazione, conversione a nuovi fuel (elettrico e idrogeno) e intermodalità sono le leve che le aziende possono sfruttare per creare valore nel contesto della...

Insegnare la creatività nel mondo digitale: alla ricerca di una metodologia efficace (Gianna Angelini, Agenda Digitale)

Come improntare una metodologia per educare al pensiero creativo nel contesto delle innovazioni frenetiche della comunicazione digitale e di fronte al senso di impotenza...

Covid, non mandiamo in pensione il tracciamento digitale: ecco perché serve ancora (Giulia Cencetti, Bruno Lepri, Gabriele Santin, Agenda Digitale)

Il tracciamento digitale non solo basato su telefoni cellulari, unito a una comunicazione più efficace per risolvere i dubbi sulla privacy e a una...

Green industrial policies key for climate adaptation in developing world (UN News)

Green industrial policies will be critical for developing countries to adapt to climate change, UN trade and development body UNCTAD said in a report published on...

Countries most at risk, lead the way on climate action (UN News)

In a new analysis, released ahead of the COP26 climate negotiations, the agency said that 93 per cent of least developed countries (LDCs) and small island developing States (SIDS) have submitted enhanced national climate plans (NDCs), or plan to...

World Heritage forests releasing more carbon than they absorb: UNESCO (UN News)

The agency’s new analysis, World Heritage forests: Carbon sinks under pressure , shows that instead of helping mitigate global warming, some of the world’s most treasured forests...