Day 2 of the UN’s Post-2015 Summit was not quite as hectic as the previous day, but there were still some key announcements made as world leaders were speaking all over the building at various events. The UN Global Compact’s...
UN Week kicks off on a high note on Friday, with the opening of a special summit on the Sustainable Development Goals. Pope Francis will be one of the first to address the summit on Friday morning. President Obama is...
This is the tenth installment of our “Meet A 2015-er” series that profiles the women and men who are helping to shape the Sustainable Development Goals and Climate Change negotiations as they take shape this year. Today we hear a...
It was high drama, UN style. Negotiations went late into the night…sometimes very late, with sessions breaking at 5:30 am. And, unusually for the United Nations, deep into the weekend. At issue was a the line-by-line negotiation of the final...
Grahamstown is the picture perfect sleepy town. I live on top of one of its many hills. At night, I can get a clear view of my adopted home in its entirety. I turn left, and I see the cozy, picturesque...
What if I told you every country on the planet just agreed to finance the eradication of extreme poverty by 2030–and do so in an environmentally sustainable way? You’d think it would be front page news, right? This is exactly...
Download on iTunes or get the app to listen later. A hugely consequential UN conference kicks off in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia next week. It has has not gotten a tremendous amount of media attention, but it is pretty big deal...
Every year the UN Development Program crunches the available data on health and development and tracks progress against each of the eight Millennium Development Goals. Earlier this week, the United Nations released its final “progress report” on the MDGs. With just...
Ed note. This is a guest contribution from Martin Edwards and originally appeared in the Permanent Observer blog. Edwards is an Associate Professor and Director of the Center for UN and Global Governance Studies at Seton Hall University. Follow him on Twitter @MartinSEdwards...
