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]
Aug 30, 2019
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United Nations, New York, USA, August 30, 2019 – Maria Fernanda Espinosa Garces (right), President of the seventy-third session of the General Assembly, meets with Greta Thunberg (second from left), climate activist from Sweden, and Alexandria Villasenor (left) and Xiye Bastida, climate activists from the United States. Photo: Luiz Rampelotto/EuropaNewswire General Assembly President Maria Espinosa welcomed today at the United Nations the climate activist Greta Thunberg who sailed from Europe to New York for two weeks on a zero-emissions sailboat to take part in the Climate Action Summit later in September. Espinosa, together with 16-year-old Thunberg and two other New [Read More]
