UN Youth envoy launches coding competition to help solve climate crisis and ‘Reboot the Earth’
Can young coders help solve the climate crisis? The UN’s Youth Envoy launched a global competition earlier this month, “Reboot
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Monday’s Daily Brief: US-DPRK relationship reset, ‘Horrific’ Kabul bombing, Anti-conscription plan in Syria, Climate change heat stress, Security Council in Iraq
This Monday, we cover: Guterres welcomes possible US-DPRK diplomatic upgrade; Taliban attack hits schools; UN-Syria action plan on child soldiers;
Read moreKeeping cool in the face of climate change
As global temperatures reach record highs, providing cooling systems which are effective, sustainable and which do not harm the environment
Read more‘Act now with ambition and urgency’ to tackle the world’s ‘grave climate emergency’, UN chief urges UAE meeting
The world is facing “a grave climate emergency”, Secretary-General António Guterres told a climate meeting in the United Arab Emirates
Read moreFriday’s Daily Brief: More climate action says Guterres, migrant children dangers, Ebola fight, record-setting weather
This Friday, we cover: UN chief appeals for stronger climate action commitment; report on migrant children deaths and disappearances; Ebola
Read moreG20 members at odds over climate change for summit meeting: sources
G20 negotiators are wrangling over the wording of a summit communique on combatting climate change, with the United States pushing
Read moreWorld faces ‘climate apartheid’ risk, 120 more million in poverty: UN expert
Climate change “threatens to undo the last 50 years” of development, global health and poverty reduction, a United Nations expert
Read moreIt’s time we took a seat ‘at your table’: Guterres calls on world youth to keep leading climate emergency response
Older generations have “failed to respond properly” to the climate emergency said the UN chief on Sunday, while the young
Read moreAmbitious 2050 climate goal relegated to footnote at EU summit
A push by most European Union nations for the world’s biggest economic bloc to go carbon-neutral by 2050 was dropped
Read moreUnder pressure, Biden drifts leftward on abortion, climate change
The Joe Biden Express to the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination went a bit off track this week. Reuters: Health News
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