by Gary Chandler | Dec 4, 2018 | Climate Change, United Nations
Naturalist Opens Climate Change Conference Sir David Attenborough announced the United Nations’ launch of a new campaign enabling people to unite in actions to battle climate change. In an address to the opening session of United Nations Climate Change Conference...
by Gary Chandler | Jan 18, 2018 | Sustainable Cities, United Nations
Cities A Massive Problem, Opportunity By Helen Clark, Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme On behalf of UNDP, welcome to the launch of the UNDP Sustainable Urbanization Strategy. As we meet here in Quito today for the Habitat III conference,...
by Gary Chandler | Jan 8, 2014 | Sustainable Cities, United Nations
Critical In Fight Against Climate Change As chair of the Group of 77 and China, Fiji has called on world leaders to give urgent attention to the sustainability of cities. The message was relayed to world leaders at the United Nations in New York by Fiji’s...
by Gary Chandler | Apr 19, 2013 | Sustainable Cities, United Nations
Resiliency During Climate Change With the proportion of the global population living in the urban areas sets to rise to 70 percent by 2050, cities worldwide are catching up to build infrastructures – 60 percent of which are yet to be built – to meet today’s...
by Gary Chandler | Aug 1, 2008 | Climate Change, United Nations
Bloomberg Promotes Climate Action United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Michael Bloomberg of the United States as his Special Envoy for Cities and Climate Change. Mr. Bloomberg will assist the Secretary-General in his...
by Gary Chandler | May 4, 2007 | Climate Change, United Nations
Investing In Climate Action The Green Climate Fund, designed as the United Nations’ most important funding body in the battle on climate change in developing nations, launched its headquarters on Wednesday in South Korea, but uncertainty over finances clouded...
