Sep 25, 2019
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by Kunzang Lhamo Last Monday marked the conclusion of United Nation Climate Action Summit 2019, which took place in New York City. The Summit was attended by numerous heads of state, business leaders, young activists, people representatives and philanthropists. The theme of this year’s summit was “A Race We can Win. A Race We Must Win”. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres hosted the summit to mobilize different states, companies, investors and citizens to take actions that can help mitigate the negative effects of climate change around the world. He stated “I want to hear about how we are going to [Read More]
Sep 21, 2019
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by Kunzang Lhamo September 21, 2019- The U.N Youth Climate Summit for the first time in history took place as part of a weekend of events leading up to the U.N Secretary-General’s Climate Action Summit on Monday, September 23. It was a full-day program which brought together young activists and leaders from across the world to include their voice in building paths towards a habitable planet and to demand radical moves to fight climate change. More than 700 mostly young activists attended the first Youth Climate Summit, according to Luis Alfonso de Alba, the U.N. special climate summit envoy. The [Read More]
– By Kunzang Lhamo United Nations – 17 September 2019 – Press conference by Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General and Luis Alfonso de Alba, Un secretary-General’s special Envoy for the 2019 Climate Summit. During the Press Conference today at the UN, AminaJ. Mohammed briefed reporters on the overview of the types of initiative that can be expected from the coming Climate Action Summit. She stated “ the Summit will present practical and new measures to One, speed up the transition from coal to clean energy and to cut the pollution that is harming our health. Second,to protect nature but [Read More]