Felix Dodds comments on sustainable development, coffee & life

S eptember 10-24 th : 79 th  Session of the UN General Assembly, New York, USA 22-24 th   Summit of the Future , New York, USA 22-29 th   New York Climate Week,  New York, USA 25th   High-level Meeting on Sea-Level Rise 26  High-level Meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) October 21 st  – 1 st  November:  Convention on Biological Diversity,  Colombia 21 st -25 th   Commonwealth Heads of State , Apia, Tuamasaga, Samoa 25-27 th   World Bank Group meetings,  Washington DC, USA November 4-8 th   World Urban Forum , Cairo, Egypt 5 th  US Election 11-22 nd   UN Climate Change Conference COP29 , Baku Azerbaijan 18-19 th  G20 Summit, Rio, Brazil 18-21 st   Fifth World Data Forum , Medellin, Colombia 25 th  – 1 st  December:  Plastics Pollution INC 5,  Busan Pusan-Jikhalsi, Republic of Korea December 2-13 th   UN Convention to Combat Desertification,  Riyadh, Saudi Ara...

Javier Surasky is the chair the International Cooperation Department of the International Relations Institute of the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina. He was the director of research for Cepei between 2015 and 2024. He blogs through Global Rader and has published over fifty books, book chapters, articles, and reports on the 2030 Agenda, South-South Cooperation, the UN reform, and Sustainable Development governance. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become an integral part of daily life for most people inhabiting our planet. It has been incorporated into our internet search engines (Google), transportation systems (Uber, Waze, Google Maps), entertainment platforms (Netflix, Disney Channel), and work tools (ChatGPT, Dall-E, Midjourney, Canva). The list is endless and extends to areas that shape our world, from tourism (Despegar, Trivago) to warfare (lethal autonomous weapon systems), including international trade and finance. AI is transforming our societies. This is not the...

  Originally from the COP29 web page here. The Fund to receive annual contributions from fossil fuel producing countries and companies. Fund to target climate projects in developing countries that need support, meeting next generation of NDCs to keep 1.5C within reach, and addressing the consequences of natural disasters. Fund will catalyze public and private sectors across mitigation, adaptation, and research and development, and will contain additional special facilities. Initial fundraising aiming for $1 billion, as COP29 President-Designate calls for contributors to come forward with climate finance. Fund one of 14 initiatives in COP29 Action Agenda to enhance ambition and enable action. Azerbaijan has announced the Climate Finance Action Fund (CFAF) to invest in climate action in the developing world. CFAF will be capitalised with contributions from fossil fuel producing countries and companies across oil, gas and coal, and Azerbaijan will be a founding contributor. Members w...