Expanding the Legacy
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UN Climate Fails: Still Expecting a Different Outcome
Turkeys do not usually vote for Christmas. Still, some people seem genuinely surprised and dismayed by the species’ instinct for self-preservation. Azerbaijan derives more than ninety percent of its export earnings from the sale of oil and natural gas. Each day, the country pumps about 750,000 barrels of oil and dumps 650,000 of them on the global market, bringing in close to $20 billion annually. In November, Azerbaijan is to host COP29, the annual gathering of some forty thousand jet-setting government officials, NGO delegates, and assorted camp followers such as staff, guests, reporters, and ‘parties overflow’, i.e. the merely curious who are allowed to nose around the conference premises as long as they do not partake in the proceedings.
UAE Gathering Scores Few Successes
Beneath our feet, the earth manufactures and hides a treasure trove of clean energy. In Lorraine, a former coal mining region hugging the French-German border, a reservoir containing up to 260 million metric tonnes of natural hydrogen has recently been discovered. The volume equals almost four times that of the...
Deep-Sea Miners Ogling Strategic Minerals
“There’s gold in them thar depths.” Millions upon untold millions of potato-sized rocks lay scattered across 4.5 million square kilometres of seafloor between the Hawaiian archipelago and Clipperton, an uninhabited atoll some 1,300 kms southwest of Manzanillo, Mexico. This ultimate of desert islands belongs to France. Last year, the industrial...
António Guterres Sounding the Alarm
‘You Are Failing Us’. From Abidjan to Zürich, and Zanzibar to Adelaide, and estimated 7.6 million concerned people took to the street to deliver that unambiguous statement to world leaders gathered in New York City for the UN Climate Action Summit. Between September 20 and 27, well over 6,000 ‘strike actions’ unfolded in 185 countries involving 820 organisations.
A UN Start-Up with Big Ideas
Shaping innovative ways to help implement, and deliver on, the United Nations 2030 Agenda, the Geneva-based SDG Lab seeks to bring together multiple actors to bundle and deploy their expertise, and exploit opportunities that offer shared benefits and add real value. In existence since June 1, 2017, SDG Lab is small and nimble as it engages with multiple stakeholders with a foot- or toehold in what is, arguably, one of the world’s most cosmopolitan cities.
