A new index to promote equity in maritime activities
According to UN Trade & Development, between 1995 and 2020, the economic sector associated to maritime activities grew 2.5 times, twice as fast as the global economy. In 2023, the maritime ...
Will the Board of Peace replace part of the United Nations?
Is Donald Trump creating a new international organisation in his own image, as an alternative to the United Nations? Over the past few days, the US president has sent invitations to a number of worl...
Crisis
Misinformation, social polarisation, extreme weather events, inequality, erosion of human rights, armed conflicts, pollution. According to the highly influential analysis of systemic risks publ...
The US pulls out of the UNFCCC, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
The Trump administration has launched yet another onslaught on international law and the fight against climate change. In a deeply troubling and unprecedented move, on Wednesday 7 January, Secretary...
Amidst agreements and blockades: the 2025 review for the ocean
The ocean, which supplies humankind with fundamental ecosystem services, from fishing to climate regulation, is increasingly central to international debates. The year 2025 has witnessed mixed resul...
The Paris Climate Agreement marks its first ten years
Ten years ago, the Paris Agreement united the world in the fight against climate change at the 21st United Nations Climate Change Conference. With this historic agreement, 195 countries pledged to t...
Earth may be in crisis, but we can still choose our future: UNEP GEO-7
In one of Africa's major cities, Nairobi, Kenya, the seventh session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-7) is being held in early December. In this context, UNEP has published the new&...
UNEP: “Recognising ecocide as war crime or crime against humanity”
Dead lands do not forget. They record each bomb, each contaminant, each burned hectare like a new geological layer of violence. They are the most accurate archives of war, much more reliable than mi...
Why UNGA 80 and the 2026 UN Water Conference Will Not Change Water Politics
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly has just concluded in New York. For a week...
The green dragon: China now holds the climate leadership
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano from New York – “The green and low-carbon transition is the trend of our time. Yet som...
At War with the Future: Trump Speaks at the UN General Assembly
A legend in his own mind, Donald Trump took to the podium at the UN General Assembly in New York to lambaste the United Nations as an organization, praise himself for all his economic and political ...
Donald Trump at the UN General Assembly: a lengthy speech against climate change, the United Nations and Europe
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano from New York - “Climate change is the biggest con job ever.” “Renewables are a ...
Un General Assembly: France and nine other western countries recognise Palestine as a state
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano From New York - “France will recognise the Palestinian state.” These were the wor...
Water: 1 in 4 without safe access. Arrojo-Agudo: the real figure is double that
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Fifteen years after the historic UN resolution that established access to safe drinking water and ...
Global Plastics Treaty, INC-5.2 ends without agreement and amid controversy
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano After a night of closed-door meetings and a day later than scheduled, the final plenary session of...
United Nations, is UN80 the start of a new era?
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche italiano “The Trump presidency is seriously destabilising the UN system, and many heads of state are fol...
States have an obligation to combat climate change: landmark UN ruling
Questo articolo è disponibile anche in inglese / This article is also available in English Ralph Regenvanu was present in the courtroom of the International Court of Justice in The Hague on ...
Drought: Here are the Global Hotspots. No Country is Safe
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano “No country is immune to drought and we need to be prepared.” Daniel Tsegai, Program O...
Third UN Ocean Conference: a missed opportunity to protect marine life
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Frome Nice - The Third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3) concluded on Friday, the 13th of Ju...
UNOC3 Nice, the third United Nations Ocean Conference kicks off
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano From Nice - The third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3) begins today June 9 and will run unt...