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.
The U.N. chief calls on all nations to adopt a newer measure for phasing out powerful climate-warming chemicals.
The original target for the campaign was 640,000 children, which may have been an overestimate due to the war.
People's health, nature and farmland all suffer from the spiraling negative impacts, says the U.N. health agency
The guidance comes weeks before the U.N. General Assembly takes up the issue of AMR at its high-level meeting this month.
The U.N. chief calls on all nations to adopt a newer measure for phasing out powerful climate-warming chemicals.
The original target for the campaign was 640,000 children, which may have been an overestimate due to the war.
Global cooperation on health, defense, climate change and more would be at risk under a second Trump presidency.
A U.N.-led group says the world won't be able to get to net-zero emissions without first cleaning up the mining business.
