Recommended Background Information – into our Practice:
Summer of 2024:Articles That May Inspire
“Hope is in Our Actions”
( Over this summer period- I received the following articles over my desk , and that may help inspire, steer and support (y)our practice, organizing ways and interventions,- in the second half of this year.)
UN 2.0
Polarised Security Council debates meaning of multilateralism
https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/07/1152166
On the Summit of the Future- Prof Jeffrey Sachs
https://www.jeffsachs.org/newspaper-articles/y9ztggwdzsldjr386lgbma5snhk3rr
Message from SG Guterres
Peace
Message from (Dutch) Church and Peace Organisation, following NATO summit in Washington
Victor Orban Interview on his Peace Mission- with der Welt
https://youtu.be/7DaVBp3IUO0?si=4766C6cgopSyk7vy
Peace message of Governor of of Hiroshima Prefecture at the Peace Memorial Ceremony 2024
https://hiroshimaforpeace.com/en/2024peace-memorial-ceremony/
10 Principles for Perpetual Peace in the 21st Century – Opinion Prof. Jeffrey Sachs
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/10-principles-peace-21st-century
Energy & Climate
Roosevelt Institute: Green Industrial Policy Unfinished Business
Why is the Oil Industry Booming?
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/16/business/energy-environment/oil-company-profits.html
Rystad reports: OPECs Oil Reserves are Much Lower than Officially Reported.
Interview with Roxer Cox- Climate Lawyer in the Shell Court Case
The Other PetroStates, Oil and Gas Companies: Wealthy countries lead in new oil and gas expansion, threatening 12bn tonnes of emissions
Bloomberg report: BP warns of disorderly clean energy transition amid record fossil fuel use
FT Martin Wolf interview of Adair Turner- Chair Energy Transition Comission
https://www.ft.com/content/e3e4751f-3d38-40e8-8f92-5d695077bf74
Forbes: World Energy Council Urges Energy Transition Approach to Change
We built our world for a climate that no longer exist
China is building twice as much wind and solar as rest of the world.
FT article : We must not mistake China’s success on green energy for a global one
https://www.ft.com/content/3043fca2-111c-441f-985b-557aa2efa3a0
IRENA Renewable Energy Statistics 2024
https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/irena-renewable-energy-statistics-year-2024/270219114
UN Panel on Critical Earth Materials
https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/panel-on-critical-minerals-submissions
UN SG Criticial Earth Materials Initiative
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swyIBwl8JvQ
Yellen’s Green Investment Call
UNSDGs
World is getting a “failing grade” with respect to global goals
https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/06/1151606
Be Leaders and Inspire
https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/07/1152086
UNEP Report: Navigating New Horizons
https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/unep-report-navigating-new-horizons-2024/270269933
Earth Overshoot Day
https://overshoot.footprintnetwork.org/power-of-possibility/
Re-booting the UNSDGs goals:
Can India become rich before its population grows old?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c87r7kp55e3o
Patrick Paul Walsh UN SDSN Statement to UN ECOSOC High Level Segment July 18
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acPM4nwGoE0
UN Summit of the Future 22-23nd September 2024
https://www.un.org/en/high-level-week-2024
A sample of our presentation/ publication portfolio