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UN: Pledge goal reached for averting oil disaster off Yemen
Associated Press via Yahoo! Philippines News· 2 years agoThe United Nations said Monday it has finally reached a pledging goal to raise money to remove 1...
Only 12% of the UN Sustainable Development Goal targets are on track
Quartz via Yahoo! Philippines News· 1 year agoAccording to a new UN report, progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is not going...
World on 'thin ice' as UN climate report gives stark warning
Associated Press via Yahoo! Philippines News· 1 year agoHumanity still has a chance, close to the last, to prevent the worst of climate change's future...
Get ready to hear a lot more about the proposed UN ban on plastic pollution
Quartz via Yahoo! Philippines News· 1 year agoAs the environmental consequences of human dependence on single-use plastics become increasingly...
UN ocean treaty talks resume with goal to save biodiversity
Associated Press via Yahoo! Philippines News· 1 year agoUnited Nations members gather Monday in New York to resume efforts to forge a long-awaited and...
Three UN sustainability goals have seen the most progress—but not very much
Quartz via Yahoo! Philippines News· 1 year agoThe world may have made little progress in its Sustainability Development Goals (SDG) for 2030, but...
Former UN official Mark Malloch-Brown on Putin, Ukraine, and the case for multilateralism
Quartz via Yahoo! Philippines News· 2 years agoAgainst all odds and widespread critiques, faith that multiple governments and institutions can work...
Millennials, assembled: At UN, younger leaders rise
Associated Press via Yahoo! Philippines News· 2 years agoA young president at the U.N. General Assembly touted millennial status symbols like coffee, outdoor adventure and Bitcoin. Shaped by the borderless...
'Time is up': Countries trapped in climate crisis raise alarm at UN
Reuters via Yahoo! Philippines News· 2 years agoCountries on the front lines of the climate crisis are fed up. During the annual gathering of world...
The likelihood that Earth briefly hits key warming threshold grows bigger and closer, UN forecasts
Associated Press via Yahoo! Philippines News· 1 year agoThere's a two-out-of-three chance that the world will temporarily hit a key warming limit within the...