title stringlengths 13 126 | url stringlengths 49 139 | content stringlengths 5.78k 31.8k |
|---|---|---|
All Stakeholders Have a Role to Play in Ridding the World of Chemical Weapons | https://www.un.org/en/un-chronicle/all-stakeholders-have-role-play-ridding-world-chemical-weapons | 26 July 2022
On 29 April this year, we marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the entry into force of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction (the Chemical Weapons Convention), and the establishment of the Organisation for the P... |
Now Is the Time: We Must Find a Global Response to This Most Global of Problems | https://www.un.org/en/chronicle/article/now-time-we-must-find-global-response-most-global-problems | From Vol. XLIV, No. 2, "Green Our World!", 2007
The lines were drawn as the industrialized nations of the Group of Eight gathered in Heiligendamm, Germany on 6 June 2007. The forces mustered to fight global warming were divided into competing camps.
Germany and the United Kingdom sought urgent talks on a new clim... |
Know Your Ocean. Love Your Ocean. | https://www.un.org/en/chronicle/article/know-your-ocean-love-your-ocean | May 2017, Nos. 1 & 2 Volume LIV, Our Ocean, Our World
I was woken in the middle of the night by a thud on the hull of our boat. We rushed up on deck to find we were surrounded by pieces of plastic floating in the ocean. It didn't make any sense. We were over 1000 miles from land. The closest people to us were in the... |
Navigating Our Way Towards a Plastic-Free Ocean | https://www.un.org/en/un-chronicle/navigating-our-way-towards-plastic-free-ocean | 28 June 2022One of the things I love about being at sea is that you must constantly react to changes in the environment around you. If the wind picks up or the waves switch direction, you have to adjust your sails and shift your course. Sometimes your life depends on your response.This idea of reacting and shifting dir... |
Protecting the Tree of Life: The Path Forward | https://www.un.org/en/un-chronicle/protecting-tree-life-path-forward | 21 May 2023
Life on earth is wondrously diverse. It is made up of keystone species that sustain a profusion of ecosystems all over the world. These systems are finely balanced and interdependent. Remove one keystone species and an entire ecosystem will be drastically changed or could even collapse. This structure is s... |
The Secretary-General’s Strategy on New Technologies | https://www.un.org/en/un-chronicle/secretary-general%E2%80%99s-strategy-new-technologies-0 | December 2018, Nos. 3 & 4 Vol. LV, "New Technologies: Where To?"
Technological change in the digital era is transformational, but it does not always advance sustainable development or reduce inequality. In some countries today, more people have access to smartphones than access to clean water or adequate sanitati... |
The UN Role In Climate Change Action: Taking The Lead Towards A Global Response | https://www.un.org/en/chronicle/article/un-role-climate-change-action-taking-lead-towards-global-response | From Vol. XLIV, No. 2, "Green Our World!", 2007Over the coming weeks and months, the three Special Envoys on climate change appointed by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will be making whistle-stop tours of key capital cities to build a solid and sustainable consensus on action over climate change. Gro Harlem Brundtlan... |
The United Nations and Disarmament Treaties | https://www.un.org/en/chronicle/article/united-nations-and-disarmament-treaties | December 2014, No. 3 Vol. LI, Conference Diplomacy
Established upon the ashes of the Second World War to represent “We the Peoples”, it is not surprising that both peace and security were fundamental objectives for the United Nations. While many also wanted disarmament, countervailing lessons were drawn by some pol... |
Unlayering of the Ozone: An Earth Sans Sunscreen | https://www.un.org/en/chronicle/article/unlayering-ozone-earth-sans-sunscreen | The formation of the Antarctic ozone hole is a graphic demonstration of how rapidly we can change the atmosphere of our planet. There are many other environmental issues facing us today and we must link them together to understand and debate the underlying causes, rather than treat each issue in isolation. Antarctica i... |
Tracking Climate Change From Space | https://www.un.org/en/chronicle/article/tracking-climate-change-space | For centuries, rural communities in the high plateaus of the Andes have utilized water from melting glaciers that typify this amazing mountain range. But the retreat of these glaciers is forcing the communities to reconsider their livelihoods and ways to adapt. From a wider perspective, the melting of glaciers is an ic... |
Climate Change and Our Common Future: A Historical Perspective | https://www.un.org/en/chronicle/article/climate-change-and-our-common-future-historical-perspective | I saw at one time
a leaflet that asked people to come together in stopping climate change. It seems that many are not aware that the climate changes all the time and that the change is not stoppable. Climate changes, however, differ in their timing and magnitude and are a result of many factors, such as the distance b... |
Responsible Innovation for a New Era in Science and Technology | https://www.un.org/en/un-chronicle/responsible-innovation-new-era-science-and-technology | December 2018, Nos. 3 & 4 Vol. LV, "New Technologies: Where To?"
Today we are at the dawn of an age of unprecedented technological change. Sometimes referred to as the Fourth Industrial Revolution, this historic moment has inspired a growing consensus that recent developments in science and technology are of a uniq... |
In the Beginning | https://www.un.org/en/chronicle/article/beginning | In the beginning, the AIDS epidemic struck like a thief in the night -- suddenly, terrifyingly, and deadly. At first, there were a few cases of a rare malignancy, Kaposi's sarcoma; then came the appearance of Pneumocystis pneumonia; and finally a plethora of opportunistic infections including systemic candidiasis, cryp... |
The Scope and Limits of Humanitarian Action in Urban Areas of the Global South | https://www.un.org/en/chronicle/article/scope-and-limits-humanitarian-action-urban-areas-global-south | May 2016, No. 1 Vol. LIII, Humanitarian Action: A Shared Responsibility
Our rapidly globalizing and urbanizing world presents a host of complex challenges for humanity and the living environment. These developments pose threats to, as well as opportunities for, ongoing and future humanitarian action. Rather than be li... |
The Secretary-General's Agenda: Progress On Disarmament Required For Global Security | https://www.un.org/en/chronicle/article/secretary-generals-agenda-progress-disarmament-required-global-security | It is an honour to suggest agenda items and top priorities in international security for Ban Ki-moon's first term in office as Secretary-General of the United Nations. However, it is also a daunting prospect, given his special expertise in foreign affairs and international security policy.I will consider four overarchi... |
Collective Action:The Private Sector's Interest and Role in Collaborating to Address Water Challenges in Urban and Rural Areas | https://www.un.org/en/chronicle/article/collective-actionthe-private-sectors-interest-and-role-collaborating-address-water-challenges-urban | April 2013, No. 1 Vol. L, Water
WATER CHALLENGES: SHARED RISK AND SHARED INTEREST
As many of us are aware, water poses one of the most critical sustainable development challenges of the twenty-first century. Overall demand for water worldwide has increased steadily over the last century and is expected to continue to... |
Challenges to Biosecurity from Advances in the Life Sciences | https://www.un.org/en/chronicle/article/challenges-biosecurity-advances-life-sciences | August 2013, No. 2 Vol. L, Security
“Ring farewell to the century of physics, the one in which we split the atom and turned silicon into computing power. It's time to ring in the century of biotechnology.”1
This article summarizes the results of a qualitative risk assessment project on the biosecurity implications o... |
Keeping Food Safe, Even in Unexpected Situations | https://www.un.org/en/un-chronicle/keeping-food-safe-even-unexpected-situations | 7 June 2024
Food safety hazards do not recognize borders. In today's interconnected, global food supply, risks posed by unsafe food can quickly escalate from a local issue to an international emergency. Humanitarian crises generated by conflicts and climate change around the world contribute to food insecurity and com... |
United Nations Agencies Forward Together in the Response to Violence Against Women | https://www.un.org/en/chronicle/article/united-nations-agencies-forward-together-response-violence-against-women | Momentum is building to eliminate the most pervasive yet least recognized human rights abuse in the world -- violence against women. Studies show that 70 per cent of women experience some form of physical or sexual violence in their lifetime. Everywhere, communities, civil society and governments are mobilizing to end ... |
Women and HIV | https://www.un.org/en/chronicle/article/women-and-hiv | What is it with women and girls? Why are we always left behind? Why can't we choose the things we want to be a part of? Why must we always race to the front, rather than be left peacefully alone when we would rather not partake? Is it because, as women, we are strong, powerful, and the foundation of our society?When we... |
End of preview. Expand in Data Studio
README.md exists but content is empty.
- Downloads last month
- 17