Negotiators and officials aim to wrap up so that May's 77th World Health Assembly can consider a proposed text.
GENEVA (AN) — Talks on a proposed treaty for handling future pandemics stumbled at the hoped-for finish line, prompting an additional round.
Negotiators' plans to wrap up on Thursday were stymied by divisions over issues such as unequal access to vaccines, intellectual property rights and misinformation about the treaty encroaching on nations' sovereignty.
Climate scientists have warned for decades about bleaching of coral reefs, which are nurseries for commercial fisheries.
This year and next mark the countdown to a 2025 deadline for governments to strengthen their carbon-cutting plans.
The France-based court was created to uphold the European Convention on Human Rights, which took effect in 1953.
Ambient fine particulate matter known as PM2.5 is considered the world’s leading environmental health risk factor.
Fourteen cases remain under investigation by U.N. investigators, who have met with authorities in Israel.
The chair of the talks called for optimism despite divisions among plastic-producing nations and those urging restraints.
The number of people facing high levels of acute food insecurity has increased every year since 2019.
The group of organizations that reviewed the U.N. agency recommends several ways of strengthening its neutrality.
