UNCTAD’s Director ‘Invents’ Cure For Climate Crisis, Social & Economic Development

Director of the Globalisation and Development Strategies Division of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAN), Richard Kozul-Wright, has made a strong case for a coordinated global investment programme to tackle the twin challenge of delivering social and economic development while stabilising the climate. The international community, in its commitment to delivering the […]

Green Economy Academy Is Spreading Innovative Policies, PAGE Says

Conversations at the 2019 Green Economy Academy have contributed to spread greater understanding of innovative policies, strategies and tools, and more importantly, on the different ways in which they are being shaped, adopted and implemented. Insiders say the event which took place in Turin, Italy from October 14-18, was very successful in delivering individual and […]

Alarming Assessments Say Governments Are Failing To Address Climate Crisis 

There are concerns about how other nations will react after US President Donald Trump formally notified the United Nations of the US withdrawal from the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. This is coming amid alarming assessments that governments are failing to address the climate crisis, says a new study, which is based on 40 years of […]

Beware! Climate Crisis Is Hitting The World Harder, Scientists Warn

A new report published ahead of a key United Nations climate talks: United in Science seriously warned that the world is falling drastically behind in the race to avert climate disaster, with the five-year period ending in 2019 the hottest on record. The report comes in the wake of Friday’s global climate strike, which saw millions of […]

Climate Crisis: Barbados Prime Minister Seeks Reinvention Of The International Order

Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Amor Mottley, has challenged the world to reinvent the international order in a bid to salvage small island states that are on the frontlines of the climate crisis, a war they did not start. “An international order that is not inclusive, or strongly rooted in fairness and moral legitimacy will […]

Climate Crisis Takes Centre Stage At UN Trade Forum

Expectedly, the climate crisis will be far-reaching for all people and nations, but small island development states are at the forefront of its impacts. It also stands to wipe out trade gains of these vulnerable islands if not addressed now. This reality has brought the world’s island nations, the trade community, policy-makers, and the United […]