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- UN: Embrace the Paris Agreement to Solve the Covid-19 Crisis Tue, 24 Mar 20, 12:00pmGuest essay by Eric Worrall Speech by the UN Secretary General, urging countries to embrace the Paris Agreement and United Nations sustainability agenda as part of their response to the Covid-19 crisis...
- UN releases World Water Development Report 2020 Tue, 24 Mar 20, 1:30amClimate change further challenges the world’s overstretched water resources, ultimately threatening all aspects of human life, according to the latest UN World Water Development Report...
- Stinks: Slow WHO let CoronaVirus run. But Ethiopian WHO chief was part of China’s debt trap diplomacy Mon, 3 Feb 20, 5:09amThe WHO could have declared a state of emergency earlier. Instead it delayed the announcement, praised China’s transparency, and recommended countries allow planes potentially carrying a deadly virus continue to fly...
- Stinks: Slow WMO let CoronaVirus run. But Ethiopian WMO chief was part of China’s debt trap diplomacy Mon, 3 Feb 20, 5:09amThe WMO could have declared a state of emergency earlier. Instead it delayed the announcement, praised China’s transparency, and recommended countries allow planes potentially carrying a deadly virus continue to fly...
- Kiribati Man is Back: UN Rules Climate Refugees Cannot Be Rejected Wed, 22 Jan 20, 5:00pmGuest essay by Eric Worrall This judgement has implications for US border control, as unskilled illegal immigrants who attempt to enter the USA are starting to claim they are really climate refugees...
- Davos: “Climate Change seems to be Outgrowing the … Institutions … who have Dealt with it Until Now” Mon, 20 Jan 20, 1:00pmGuest essay by Eric Worrall The World Economic Forum, which hosts the annual $71,000 / ticket private jet party in Davos, has published an article which urges climate action be made a UN Security Council issue...
- The Guardian view on philanthropy and the bushfires: a reason to hope | Editorial Tue, 7 Jan 20, 5:35amIn an ideal world it would not be left to film stars to point to the science underlying the climate emergency“You are in no position to lecture the public about anything,” Golden Globes host Ricky Gervais told his audience...
- Please Send Cash: UN Demands $29 Billion for 2020 “Extreme Weather” Humanitarian Aid Programmes Thu, 5 Dec 19, 9:00amGuest essay by Eric Worrall Shutting the UN bar at 5pm and cutting back their first class air travel budget has failed to close the projected budget shortfall...
- Claim: Delaying Climate Action Could Threaten Democracy Wed, 4 Dec 19, 1:00pmGuest essay by Eric Worrall According to University of Copenhagen professor Ole Wæver, if we don’t act soon the UN Security Council might have to take over and dictate climate policy to member states, just as the EU...
- Bank of England Mark Carney to Head a UN Climate Action Effort Mon, 2 Dec 19, 5:00pmGuest essay by Eric Worrall Climate Activist and Bank of England Governor Mark Carney is taking on a new role as UN’s new Special Envoy for Climate Action. Mark Carney to be new Special Envoy for Climate Action ...
- COP25 Press Release: The UN Push for an All Powerful Global Carbon Market Sat, 30 Nov 19, 9:00amGuest essay by Eric Worrall Chilling mission almost complete press release from the United Nations. UN CLIMATE PRESS RELEASE / 29 NOV, 2019 COP25 to Be the Launchpad for Significantly more Climate Ambition Bonn/ Madrid,...
- UN Panic Button: Mass Extinctions By 2100 Even with Paris Agreement Climate Pledges Wed, 27 Nov 19, 1:00pmGuest essay by Eric Worrall According to the United Nations, waiting until the end of 2020 is not an option, the crisis has to be addressed now. U.N. warns world not doing nearly enough to avert climate catastrophe UPDATED...
- UN Climate Body Celebrates 11 Years Indoctrinating Future Business Leaders Tue, 29 Oct 19, 12:00pmGuest essay by Eric Worrall But even the “mock” classroom climate negotiations can’t agree on a plan. Climate change: how business school students play their partCan a mock UN negotiation really prepare...
- How vested interests tried to turn the world against climate science Fri, 11 Oct 19, 2:00amFor decades fossil fuel majors tried to fight the consensus – just as big tobacco once disputed that smoking kills
- IPCC landmark report warns about the state of the oceans, polar ice content and the climate crisis Fri, 27 Sep 19, 3:30amThe United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) — which is, in fact, the UN body responsible for communicating on the deteriorating climate — has officially recognized the oceans as a critical component...