Africa: How Clustering Multilateral Environmental Agreements Can Bring Multiple Benefits to the Environment

Africa: How Clustering Multilateral Environmental Agreements Can Bring Multiple Benefits to the Environment

Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada — The UN80 Initiative, unveiled in March by Secretary-General António Guterres, is a system-wide effort to reaffirm the UN’s relevance for a rapidly changing world. The Initiative comes at a time of brutal budget cuts across the UN system. The United Nations High Commission for Refugees is cutting 3,500 jobs and…

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Africa: How Clustering Multilateral Environmental Agreements Can Bring Multiple Benefits to the Environment

Africa: UN Reform – Is It Time to Renew the Idea of Clustering the Major Environmental Agreements?

SAN Francisco, California / Apex, North Carolina, Us — “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” Winston Churchill’s famous maxim feels very relevant today, when multilateralism and many environmental causes seem to be in retreat. We now face a triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution. Yet, the existing international environmental…

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