The spotlight on gender parity follows Mexico's push last year for a crackdown on harassment at U.N. climate talks.
Azerbaijan's organizing committee for the U.N. climate summit in 2024 is expanding by almost 50% in size with the addition of 12 women.
Capitulating to critics, the oil-rich country's President Ilham Aliyev on Friday ordered changes to the makeup of the formerly all-male committee. Aliyev appointed another man and 12 women to the committee – bringing it to 41 members; 29% are female.
Climate scientists have warned for decades about bleaching of coral reefs, which are nurseries for commercial fisheries.
This year and next mark the countdown to a 2025 deadline for governments to strengthen their carbon-cutting plans.
The France-based court was created to uphold the European Convention on Human Rights, which took effect in 1953.
Negotiators and officials aim to wrap up so that May's 77th World Health Assembly can consider a proposed text.
Fourteen cases remain under investigation by U.N. investigators, who have met with authorities in Israel.
The chair of the talks called for optimism despite divisions among plastic-producing nations and those urging restraints.
The number of people facing high levels of acute food insecurity has increased every year since 2019.
The group of organizations that reviewed the U.N. agency recommends several ways of strengthening its neutrality.
