united nations
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UN Cancels In-Person Preliminary Meetings For Climate Summit Due To Coronavirus
Due to mounting coronavirus concerns, the United Nations announced Friday that it’s cancelling in-person meetings in Bonn, Germany and elsewhere through the end of April. These meetings were intended to prepare for November’s global climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, predicted to be the most important round of climate negotiations since 2015’s Paris accord.
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This UN Treaty Would Tackle The Climate And Extinction Crises
The animals need saving. From fires, from deforestation, and from climate change, of course. That’s why the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity released Monday its first draft of an update to the global biodiversity treaty. And these targets are just as much about people as they are about wildlife.
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UN Report Shows The World Needs To Cut Emissions 78 Per Cent Over The Next Decade
World leaders have wasted a ton of valuable time not pursuing climate action—so much that our only hope now is curtailing greenhouse gas emissions at an unprecedented rate.
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Boris Johnson Warns Of ‘Pink-Eyed Terminators’ And ‘Limbless Chickens’ In Absolutely Bonkers UN Speech
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson delivered a bizarre late night speech to the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Wednesday, warning that technology could make our world a dystopian hellscape if it’s not properly constrained — a place where mattresses monitor our nightmares, heartless algorithms deny us medical care, and… robots travel from…