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DHAKA, Bangladesh, November 25 (IPS) - COP30 in Belém is not just another annual climate meeting, it is the 32-year report card of the world governance architecture that was conceived at the Rio Earth Summit of 1992. And that is what report card ...

BELÉM, Brazil, November 24 (IPS) - As observers at the Conference of Parties closely monitored proceedings in Belém, many, such as Yamide Dagnet, approached the UN Climate Summit as an implementation COP. They are advocating for tangible signals to ...

The UN's Global Industry Summit underlined the benefits of partnerships for companies in the Global South on Monday, demonstrating ways that AI - if used responsibly - can provide solutions to some of the most intractable problems faced by business . ...

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, says major companies and fast-moving technologies are creating new challenges for tackling rights abuses - and that governments and businesses need to step up.

The UN Secretary-General says the world is shifting fast towards a multipolar system - where power is spread across several regions instead of concentrated in one or two.

YAOUNDE, Cameroon / BARCELONA, Spain, November 24 (IPS) - When South Africa assumed the Presidency of the G20, debt sustainability was placed front and centre, with the promise to launch a Cost of Capital Commission. Many hoped that, with an African ...

BELÉM, Brazil, November 23 (IPS) - Following tense, nightlong negotiations and bitter rows between more than 190 country delegations, a "politically charged Belém package" was finally forged at COP30--so named because of the highly contentious and ...

Leaders from across the world are debating how industry can help tackle some of the world's most urgent challenges - from climate change and food insecurity to the need for fairer supply chains - at the Global Industry Summit, which opened on Sunday ...

In the rolling hills of Indonesia's West Java province, thousands of farmers are reaping tangible benefits from the digitization of their businesses and improved access to finance, thanks in part to a United Nationssupported project.

Ministers and leaders from across the world's 44 least developed countries have pledged to accelerate industrialisation that benefits all, and strengthen resilience in the face of global challenges, at an international UN conference in Riyadh, Saudi ...