
Students in Friday strike movement demand climate action worldwide
Climate protests organized in 2,083 cities across 125 nations made for one of the world's biggest ever demonstrations.
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Climate protests organized in 2,083 cities across 125 nations made for one of the world's biggest ever demonstrations.
The Human Rights Council began with warnings of broken norms despite some powerful movements for social justice.
António Guterres urged more diplomacy, climate ambition, technology uses, and focus on the U.N.'s 17 Global Goals.
The Trump administration's broadsides embolden nations with poor rights records and encourage attacks on journalists.
Huge security threats loom from the crisis in Yemen to Afghanistan's fighting to the U.S.-China trade war.
The strikes are not affiliated with any political party but support international organizations seeking emissions cuts.
The non-binding deal tries to solve some of the polarizing but age-old issues surrounding people crossing borders.
Negotiators overcame a deadlock on a crucial element about how nations must report their greenhouse gas emissions.
The summit is supposed to work out a 'rulebook' for nations to follow to fulfill their Paris Agreement climate pledges.
Ahead of U.N. climate talks, studies show carbon dioxide released in 2018 will be the biggest increase in seven years.
Air pollution concentrations tied to greenhouse gases worsened in almost 70% of cities from 2010 to 2016.
The Group of 20 expressed concern about the future of the World Trade Organization, which Trump threatened to leave.
Global greenhouse gas emissions, rather than fall, rose in 2017 by 0.7 gigatons to 53.5 gigatons, after three years of decreases.
At the U.N. General Assembly, the U.S. president attacked the world body as a largely useless "global bureaucracy."
The concept of a demilitarization zone goes back almost a half-millennium to Europe's rules on demolishing forts.
Ocean areas and deep seabeds beyond national jurisdictions fall within a patchwork of rules for the global commons.