UNGA Guide 2023We are at a choice point for humanity. As social and ecological crises escalate globally, it is clear that the dominant cultural worldview, informed by colonization, patriarchy, capitalism, and racism is displaying a relationship with Nature and each other that is devastatingly unjust and out of balance. To live in a healthy and equitable world,...
Join us for a civil society discussion on the outcomes of the UN High-Level Meeting on UHC and a strategy session on coordinating post-HLM advocacy to ensure #healthforall On the margins of the HLM on UHC, the Civil Society Engagement Mechanism (CSEM) for UHC2030, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC),...
Sultan Al Jaber laid out UAE’s vision for a successful COP28 outcome that includes a first ever global renewable energy target of tripling renewable energy capacity installed by 2030 to get us on the 1.5˚C track. Backed by recent publications from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and the International Energy Agency (IEA), the adequacy,...
How can this year’s UN High-Level Meeting on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness, and Response serve as a springboard for action (or change) into 2024 and beyond? The COVID-19 pandemic has cost more than 24 million lives, tens of trillions of dollars, and triggered the biggest setbacks in a generation to reducing global poverty, inequality, and achieving...
Armed with the Montreal-Kunming Global Biodiversity Framework, we embark on an immense and urgent challenge to ‘bend the curve’ of biodiversity loss by 2030. No matter how ambitious our conventional efforts are for protecting and restoring nature, these efforts alone will not be enough to bend this curve. Crucial transformative changes are needed in the...