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

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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Internet industry backs Solly Malatsi’s BEE reform plan

Internet industry backs Solly Malatsi’s BEE reform plan

Communications minister Solly Malatsi The Internet Service Providers’ Association (Ispa) has voiced its support for communications minister Solly Malatsi’s plan to reform empowerment rules in ICT sector licensing. A draft policy direction by Malatsi calls for the introduction of equity equivalents in licensing so companies don’t have to sell equity to black investors and can…

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

Africa: UN80 – Alternative Reform Pathways – Fiscal Prudence, Relocation Realities, & Underutilized Charter Mechanisms

Geneva — Recent proposals to relocate UN operations to lower-cost duty stations ignore demonstrable economic patterns. Empirical evidence suggests that establishing UN hubs often triggers localized inflation, negating projected savings. Case Study: UN Presence in Nairobi While city-wide inflation is driven by national policies, population growth, infrastructure deficits and global shocks, the UN significantly increased…

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

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

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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