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Welcome to Bonn, and welcome to this year’s United Nations Climate Change conference. Let me begin by thanking our COP 22 President from Morocco, Mr. Salaheddine Mezouar, for your leadership and service to the process. Your contribution is particularly important, as you took on the challenge to preside over the first Conference
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On the margins of ministerial meeting in Fiji, designed to the prepare the UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn in November (COP23), the UN's top climate change official Patricia Espinosa gave a speech on women's leadership in climate action and sustainable development. The Executive Secretary of UN Climate Change said
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Nineteen ground-breaking initiatives from around the world were announced today, as recipients of the United Nations ‘Momentum for Change’ Climate Solutions Award. The winners underline how Global Climate Action is accelerating, two years after the Paris Agreement was universally adopted and in support of the Sustainable Development Goals. Representatives from the following
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The pathways to a future free from the worst impacts of climate change exist. A future where all can rely on a sustainable life and livelihood and where humanity’s treatment of our planetary home will not bring the roof down on our heads. Yet the gateway to that future must
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“The following excerpt is a preview of CCTNE’s forthcoming G7 Edition, supporting this year’s Summit in Taormina, Sicily. The Electronic version of the publication (E-Zine) will be shared first, with our LinkedIn followers, later this week. To join and gain exclusive access to the G7 Edition, please copy and paste
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Opening Webinar on Paris Agreement and the SDGs with Amina Mohammed Organized by the UNSSC Knowledge Centre for Sustainable Development in partnership with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the SD Talks Special Series on Climate Action is a 7-episode webinar series that aims to advance knowledge and
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Mission 2020 campaign by former UN climate chief Christiana Figueres urges decisive action to curb emissions by 2020 on six fronts Businesses and governments only have three years to act to steer away from a course that will lock in the most devastating impacts of climate change, according to a campaign launched this week by
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By UNFCCC Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa and Ambassador Melanne Verveer Climate change is a security threat and a vulnerability multiplier. It affects human security, food security, water security, energy security—and women’s security. The security threat starts in places like the Sahel. South of the Sahara desert, the Sahel is hot and arid.
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#Art4Climate Presents the Work of Sean Yoro This story is the latest in our series #Art4Climate, a joint initiative by the UNFCCC and Julie’s Bicycle on the work of artists who make the issue of climate change more accessible and understandable by featuring it in their work Combining his love for surfing
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UNFCCC Chief Patricia Espinosa Speaking at the opening of the President of the General Assembly High-Level Event Climate Change and the Sustainable Development Agenda in New York on 23 March, UNFCCC Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa said that the sustainable development and climate change agendas are inherently linked. “By looking at climate
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