This preparatory meeting brought together developing and emerging economies to prepare for the 41st session of UNCITRAL Working Group III in November, 2021.
With subsidies of global fisheries back on the World Trade Organization's agenda, experts are calling for African governments to upscale the protection of the sector long plagued by activities that continue to threaten the continent's blue economy.
The preliminary draft COP26 agreement on how nations will collaborate to curb climate change, released Wednesday, explicitly mentions reducing fossil fuel consumption — unlike previous global climate accords. Whether that language stays in the final document remains to be seen.
Through improvisation, we aim to generate ideas to help us individually and collectively better understand what makes climate action just. And maybe even come up with some insights into how to get there.
With the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) underway in Glasgow, Scotland, we take a closer look at how climate change is affecting the Global South, what a fair and just transition to renewable energy would entail, and how concerns from the Global South can be heard and addressed.
This Q&A is intended to highlight how concession agreements and the laws governing them were used to enhance sustainable investment in agriculture in Liberia.
« Nous sommes le deuxième pays émetteur de gaz à effet de serre au monde. Les États-Unis sont obligés d’être des leaders » pour renverser la situation, a affirmé lundi l’ancien président américain Barack Obama lors d’un discours à la conférence des Nations unies sur les changements climatiques (COP26). Tout le Canada devrait prêter l’oreille : nous sommes condamnés à la même chose.
Climate change is influencing the way consumers demand food. "Food miles" was an early expression of consumer power with farmers and campaigners in Europe and the US in the 2000s, promoting the idea that the distance a product travels from farm to the consumer contributes significantly to the overall carbon footprint of a food product.