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UN Diary for 2023 Major Events

December 23, 2022

Heroes of Environmental Diplomacy: Profiles in Courage. Drawing on interviews and the inside stories of those involved, each chapter follows one or more of these heroic individuals, a list which includes Sidney Holt, Christiana Figueres , Maurice Strong, Franz Perrez , Luc Hoffmann, Mostafa Tolba , Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti, Raul Oyuela Estrada , Barack Obama and Paula Caballero. UN related events in 2023 January January 13-15 th : Thirteenth Session of the International Renewable Energy Agency Assembly - World Energy Transition – The Global Stocktake Abu Dhabi UAE January 16-20 th : World Economic Forum – Cooperation in a Fragmented World Davos Switzerland March March 5-9 th : Least Development Countries fifth Conference (Doha) March 22 to 24 th : UN Water 2023 Conference (New York) April April 21-23 rd : World Bank Group Spring Meeting April 24-27 th : Forum on Financing for Development April 24-27 th : UN World Data Forum Hangzhou China Ma

Was COP27 a Success or a Failure?

November 25, 2022

COP 27 was both better and worse than expected, say Prof. Felix Dodds and Chris Spence - originally published with Inter Press Service here. It’s finally over. After the anticipation and build-up to COP27, the biggest climate meeting of the year is now in our rear-view mirror. The crowds of delegates that thronged the Sharm el-Sheikh international convention center for two long weeks have all headed home to recover. Many will be fatigued from long hours and sleepless nights as negotiators tried to seal a deal that would move the world forwards. Did all this hard work pay off? In our opinion, COP 27 was both better and worse than we’d hoped. Failing to Follow the Science First, the bad news. COP 27 failed to deliver what the science tells us was needed. With the window of opportunity closing fast on our goal of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5C or less, COP 27 did far too little on the all-important issue of mitigation—that is, cutting emissions. The case for urgent a