Global Agricultural Transition Under Way to Boost Resilience to Climate Change and Reduce Emissions
Six Cooperative Initiatives Driving Climate Resilient, Productive and Low Emissions Agriculture Governments and food and agriculture organizations join today at the Lima-Paris Action Agenda Focus on Agriculture to respond to the urgent climate challenges facing agriculture with six cooperative initiatives that will protect the long-term livelihoods of millions of farmer and reduce greenhouse gas […]
#COP21 Lima-Paris Action Agenda Focus on #Forests
The LPAA Focus event on Forests will serve as a stepping stone for future ambitious climate action on forests. Building on the New York Declaration on Forests launched during the Climate Summit in September 2014, it will showcase transformational examples at national and subnational level to make forests and their protection a core element of […]
Paris #ClimateChange Conference opens with unprecedented call by governments and businesses to end fossil fuel subsidies
An unprecedented coalition of close to 40 governments, hundreds of businesses and influential international organisations has called today for accelerated action to phase out fossil fuel subsidies, a move that would help bridge the gap to keep global temperature rise below 2°C. On the opening day of the UN Conference on Climate Change (COP21), New […]
Three #UN agencies join forces to boost #education of adolescent girls and young #women
The heads of UNESCO, UNFPA and UN Women sealed a partnership to empower adolescent girls and young women through education, by signing a joint programme agreement at the headquarters of the United Nations Population Fund in New York. The agreement was signed today by UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova, UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin […]
UNESCO’s Director-General awards first @UNESCO-Japan Prize on #Education for #SustainableDevelopment
The Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, awarded the UNESCO-Japan Prize on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) to Asociación SERES from Guatemala and El Salvador, Jayagiri Centre from Indonesia and rootAbility from Germany, in a ceremony at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris on 5 November. This was the first edition of the prize, which was created in 2014 to honour outstanding efforts of individuals, institutions […]
Global Response to Climate Change Keeps Door Open to 2º C Temperature Limit #COP21
New UN Report Synthesizes National Climate Plans from 146 Countries An unprecedented world-wide effort is underway to combat climate change, building confidence that nations can cost effectively meet their stated objective of keeping a global temperature rise to under 2 degree C. A report released today by the UNFCCC secretariat, assessing the collective impact of over […]
2015 #EFA #Gender Report: Less than half of countries have achieved gender parity in #education
A new Gender Report compiled by UNESCO’s EFA Global Monitoring Report (GMR) for International Day of the Girl Child, shows that fewer than half of countries – of which none in sub-Saharan Africa – have achieved the goal of gender parity in both primary and secondary education, even though all were supposed to achieve it […]
Global Citizens Strong Support for Ambitious Paris Agreement
Launch of World Wide Views Global Citizen Consultation Results Report on Climate and Energy Strong Public Support for Political Leaders to Commit to Ambitious Climate Action Now The COP 21 Paris Agreement Needs to Open a Credible Path to Limit Global Warming to No More than 2 Degrees Celsius Citizens worldwide have given their leaders […]
Cartas de Federico Mayor Zaragoza al Presidente Barack Obama y a las ONG de las Naciones Unidas
Ante procesos potencialmente irreversibles no caben aplazamientos: en cuestiones de medio ambiente y de dignidad humana pueden alcanzarse puntos de no retorno. Sería una irresponsabilidad histórica permitir que la habitabilidad de la Tierra se deteriorara. Y no remediar el drama humano de los refugiados e inmigrantes. Y no detener la locura del llamado Estado Islámico. […]
¿Qué sabe el pez…?
Néstor es un joven ambicioso de veinticinco años que acaba de terminar su brillante carrera de arquitectura en Madrid y, acostumbrado a buscarse la vida y llenarla de diversión y placeres, empieza a descubrir que no todo es cómo se lo habían contado. Las circunstancias que le rodean comienzan a dar giros inesperados. Aparecen personas […]
