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Global Goals2015-09-212023-07-10

Klimaschutz: “Wissen ist Macht” – Netzwerk wirbt in Manifest für bessere Kommunikation

Von Rodrigo Pérez

QUITO, ECUADOR (IDN) – Ein Zusammenschluss einflussreicher internationaler Organisationen hat einen Appell für eine überzeugende, koordinierte Kommunikation zur Unterstützung von Klimaschutzmaßnahmen gestartet. Das Manifest der ‘Climate Knowledge Brokers’ Group’, das Grundsätze für die Verbreitung von Informationen zum Klimawandel aufführt, will einen gesellschaftlichen Wandel im Umgang mit der Klimakrise in Gang setzen.

Die Initiative wird unter anderem durch das von den Vereinten Nationen geförderte Programm für erneuerbare Energien und Energieeffizienz (REEEP), das Zentrum und Netzwerk für Klimatechnologie (CTCN), das Übersee-Entwicklungsinstitut, das Netzwerk für Klima- und Entwicklungswissen (CDKN) sowie durch Dutzende weitere Organisationen mitgetragen.

PLANET EARTH2015-09-202023-07-10

UN Urges Global Partnership on Road to Sustainability

By J R Nastranis | IDN-InDepthNews Analysis

NEW YORK (IDN) – A new United Nations report has identified persistent gaps in official development assistance (ODA) and insufficient access to markets, affordable medicines and new technologies as impediments to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and highlighted the need for a rejuvenation of the global partnership to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Climate Change2015-09-172023-07-10

Groups Urge Coordinated Communications Initiatives on Climate Change

By Rodrigo Pérez | IDN-InDepthNews Report

QUITO (IDN) – A group of major international organisations has issued a call for strong and coordinated communications initiatives to support action on climate change.

The UN-backed Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Programme (REEEP) and Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN) together with the Overseas Development Institute, Climate and Development Knowledge Network and dozens more are backing the launch of the ‘Climate Knowledge Brokers’ Manifesto’, which lists the key principles for communicating climate change effectively and so precipitating a step change in society’s response to the climate crisis.

Global Goals2015-09-152023-07-10

UN: Vollversammlung wirbt für eine Kultur des Friedens

Von J. R. Nastranis

NEW YORK (IDN*) – Die Vollversammlung der Vereinten Nationen hat ein hochrangiges Treffen abgehalten, auf dem über Wege zu einer Kultur des Friedens diskutiert wurde. In einer von multidimensionalen Krisen geprägten Zeit sei es wichtig, die Menschen zu globalen Bürgern zu erziehen, die sich für Gewaltlosigkeit und gegenseitigen Respekt einsetzten, hieß es auf dem Vierten Hochrangigen Forum in New York.

Global Goals2015-09-142023-07-10

Abrüstung: ‘Generation des Wandels’ verpflichtet sich zum Engagement gegen Kernwaffen

Von Ronald Joshua

HIROSHIMA (IDN) – Eine neue ‘Generation des Wandels’ will nach jahrzehntelangen Diskussionen über nukleare Abrüstung dafür sorgen, dass den Worten Taten folgen. Es sei höchste Zeit, 70 Jahre nach den Atombombenanschlägen auf Hiroshima und Nagasaki die Welt endlich von den 16.000 bis 17.000 Atomwaffen zu befreien, die weiterhin “jeden einzelnen Menschen durch die Aussicht auf einen brutalen und inhumanen Tod bedrohen”.

GLOBAL ISSUES2015-09-142023-07-10

Sri Lanka: Voters’ Expectations Yet to be Fulfilled

By Kalinga Seneviratne* | IDN-InDepthNews Analysis

SINGAPORE (IDN) – The U.S., UK and the international media have hailed the August 18 election results in Sri Lanka as a victory for democracy, but the looser may well turn out to be the voters of Sri Lanka. The political comedy that has taken place in the island republic in the aftermath of the election, exposes yet again the deficiencies of the democracy gospel that is unable to stamp out embedded corruption in the system.

DEVNET2015-09-142023-07-10

Learning from Korea’s ‘Saemaul Undong’ to Achieve SDGs

UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – More than 3.3 billion people live in rural areas around the world. Rural development is therefore of vital significance if the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – “a plan of action for people, planet and prosperity” – is to become reality. SPANISH | GERMAN | HINDI | JAPANESE

A day after world leaders unanimously adopted 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) on Sept. 25 at the UN headquarters in New York, the Development Centre of the 34-nation Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) co-hosted a landmark event to discuss ways for reaching SDGs across developing countries.

Trade2015-09-142023-07-10

Uruguay Pulls Out of ‘Secret’ Talks on Trade in Services

By Roberto Bissio* | IDN-InDepthNews Analysis

MONTEVIDEO (IDN | SUNS) – Just a week before the deadline for submitting national offers on liberalisation of services sectors under the on-going “secret” talks for a Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA), Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez decided on September 7 to abandon the plurilateral negotiations.

SYNDICATION, UNITED NATIONS2015-09-122023-07-12

UN High Level Forum Pleads for Culture of Peace

By J R Nastranis | IDN-InDepthNews Analysis

NEW YORK (IDN) – The United Nations General Assembly deliberated on peace and non-violence at the UN headquarters in New York on September 9, making a significant contribution to fostering global citizenship at a point in time when the world is torn apart by multidimensional conflicts in all sectors of the globe.

At the fourth UN High Level Forum on the Culture of Peace, convened by General Assembly President Sam Kahamba Kutesa, senior UN officials and eminent peace advocates pointed out that peace neither meant absence of conflict nor did it automatically result from ending conflict, but rather from building societies that embraced diversity, equality, democratic participation and access to education.

GLOBAL ISSUES2015-09-112023-07-10

Vietnam: From Ho Chi Minh to ‘Selfies’

By Shastri Ramachandran | IDN-InDepthNews Analysis

NEW DELHI (IDN) – Transitions are easy to recognise, difficult to define and describe. Vietnam’s transition is no different: easily experienced by the visitor but hard to express adequately in words.

New Vietnam is most visible at the historical sites of Old Vietnam, such as the Ho Chi Minh complex in Hanoi and the Cu Chi Tunnel complex, 70 kms northwest of Ho Chi Minh City.