Africa: Fixing the House the World Built – a Realistic Plan for UN Reform

Africa: Fixing the House the World Built – a Realistic Plan for UN Reform

New York — I’ve spent much of my life in the machinery of international development, navigating acronyms, crises, and committee rooms with stale coffee. Through it all–amid war zones, climate summits, and remote island consultations–one institution has remained constant: the United Nations. Revered, ridiculed, relied upon. But here’s the uncomfortable truth: the UN, in its…

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Africa: Fixing the House the World Built – a Realistic Plan for UN Reform

Africa: Ocean Action Boosted in Africa As Biodiversity Leaders Call for Urgent Synergy, Funding Reform

Nice, France — As the curtains draw on the UN Ocean Conference, a flurry of voluntary commitments and political declarations has injected fresh impetus into global efforts to conserve marine biodiversity. With the world’s oceans facing unprecedented threats, high-level biodiversity officials and negotiators are sounding the alarm and calling for renewed momentum–and funding–to deliver on…

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