Packed into this week’s 15-minute show: potential war crimes and crimes against humanity in Ethiopia’s Tigray; we hear from the UN rights office which has spoken to victims and their families; an urgent appeal for Afghanistan’s ‘broke and broken’, and, news
Energy was the main theme of COP26 on Thursday, with a particular focus on ending the world’s reliance on coal.
Day three of COP26 was dominated by climate finance: how to ensure that the financial sector moves definitively away from fossil fuels and instead invest in initiatives that push the global economy towards sustainability.
When you hear about war and conflict as a news consumer, it can be easy to overlook the human toll; but not in Ethiopia, where a hard-hitting UN rights office report has uncovered the very real impact on ordinary people in Tigray.
Several new pledges were made on the second day of COP26, the UN climate conference, but the reforestation commitment made by the public and private sector attracted the most attention.
The 26th UN climate conference, or COP, opened with a World Leaders Summit on Monday, and a characteristically blunt speech from UN chief António Guterres. It’s the start of a mammoth two-week event, which some are calling the last best chance to save the planet.
Human trafficking takes many forms and can involve forced labour or domestic servitude.
World leaders convene in Glasgow this weekend for the UN Climate Conference, COP26, to finalise the full implementation of the Paris Agreement.
While human activity has already influenced the climate, there are still plenty of opportunities to mitigate its effects on the planet.
In this week’s show, why cookery classes are proving a hit with visually-impaired children in Rome; we have the latest stories from the UN News team in New York, and as ever, there’ll be closing comments to savour from regular guest Solange Behoteguy-Cortes.
The coal plant never saw it coming.
