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AfDB to end financing for fossil fuel energy
The African Development Bank Group will no longer support "19th century technologies" like coal and oil and will help create the world's largest "solar zone."
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The African Development Bank Group will no longer support "19th century technologies" like coal and oil and will help create the world's largest "solar zone."
Some 40% of the U.N.'s 193 member nations committed to achieving carbon neutrality by 2050, and nearly the same amount vowed to do more by 2020.
A global task force to fight online extremism announced it will become an independent watchdog organization led by an executive director and a board.
The U.N. General Assembly called on all nations to work towards enabling everyone to have affordable, quality health services by 2030.
Students and young leaders met for the first U.N. Youth Climate Summit to demand world leaders "walk the talk" and “stop wasting time" to save the planet.
More than 500 institutional investors urged governments to finally take significant action to reduce carbon emissions.
Incoming envoy Kelly Craft took up her new job issuing a terse statement while declining to take questions from reporters.
The U.N. human rights chief says the climate crisis is a top threat and U.S. detention of migrant children is alarming.
Refugees International gave the Trump administration's U.S. practices a 'failing grade' for a second year in a row.
UNCTAD is looking at how to solve the climate crisis, particularly how sea level rise impacts small island nations.
Farming, logging, mining and other human activities add to climate impacts on land, costing up to 17% of global GDP.
The summit in France was overshadowed by fears of an escalating trade war between the United States and China.
The proposed global treaty is intended to strengthen marine protections for international waters that are beyond the 200 nautical mile (370 kilometer) jurisdiction of coastal nations.
Their demands call for supporting developing nations, paying for cleaner technologies, and pressuring wealthy nations.
U.N. leaders used the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons to call for increased prevention against a web of factors.
The number of refugees, internally displaced people and asylum-seekers rose by 2.3 million from 2017. And over the past two decades, the number has doubled.