A second vote in the United Nations solidifies international recognition that everyone's access to a clean and healthy environment is a fundamental right.
UNITED NATIONS (AN) — The U.N. General Assembly unanimously approved a resolution that for the first time recognizes everyone's access to a clean and healthy environment is a fundamental right.
Thursday's 161-0 vote — with eight abstentions by Belarus, Cambodia, China, Ethiopia, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Syria — bolsters the work of activists, citizens and climate campaigners who use legal and regulatory levers to seek greater protections.
Record heat and rightward political shifts toward nationalist self-interest undermine efforts to cut fossil fuel dependence.
WHO's emergency moves follow months of warnings the U.N. health agency faces severe impacts if U.S. funding dries up.
The process of forcing the United States to withdraw from the Paris climate treaty and WHO will take a year to complete.
The U.N. weather agency says the Paris Agreement's long-term temperature goal is "not yet dead but in grave danger."
The Trump administration's erosion of U.S. policy as Europe's main protector played out in a series of U.N. votes on Ukraine.
The coalition Merz forms will greatly influence his ability to govern the country or to strengthen multilateral institutions.
Trump's embrace of Putin and contempt for long-established transatlantic ties is an existential crisis for Europe and NATO.
More than 30 years later, Ukraine is fighting for its survival as it laments the Budapest Memorandum's broken promises.
