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No-First-Use: A powerful tool to achieve a world without nuclear weapons
worldwide/virtualDear colleagues, We draw your attention to the international launch on July 15 of NoFirstUse Global, a campaign platform and network promoting no-first-use policies globally as a measure to prevent nuclear war and to help achieve a nuclear-weapon-free world. Support for No-First-Use policies is growing in nuclear armed countries and around the world, as evidenced by the recent Open Letter
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No-First-Use: A powerful tool to achieve a world without nuclear weapons
worldwide/virtualDear colleagues, We draw your attention to the international launch on July 15 of NoFirstUse Global, a campaign platform and network promoting no-first-use policies globally as a measure to prevent nuclear war and to help achieve a nuclear-weapon-free world. Support for No-First-Use policies is growing in nuclear armed countries and around the world, as evidenced by the recent Open Letter
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Faith + Biodiversity briefing
worldwide/virtualDear colleagues, At our June 30th Faith and Biodiversity meeting we agreed to meet every 3-4 weeks to share updates and progress towards the CBD COP15. Over the past few weeks our Faith and Biodiversity Working Group has been working hard drafting a response to the First Draft of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework. We plan to finalize our response by late August in order
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Faith + Biodiversity briefing
worldwide/virtualDear colleagues, At our June 30th Faith and Biodiversity meeting we agreed to meet every 3-4 weeks to share updates and progress towards the CBD COP15. Over the past few weeks our Faith and Biodiversity Working Group has been working hard drafting a response to the First Draft of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework. We plan to finalize our response by late August in order
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FORUM2021 Sacred Food ~ Blessed Earth
worldwide/virtualIn solidarity with other NGO’s offering a strong critique of the fall UN Food Summit, FORUM2021 explores the potential of local regenerative agriculture, highlights the growing organic farming movement and offers an interfaith moral call to redressing the harm caused by agribusiness, the industrialization of the world’s food production system. FORUM2021 explores the ancient, respectful
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FORUM2021 Sacred Food ~ Blessed Earth
worldwide/virtualIn solidarity with other NGO’s offering a strong critique of the fall UN Food Summit, FORUM2021 explores the potential of local regenerative agriculture, highlights the growing organic farming movement and offers an interfaith moral call to redressing the harm caused by agribusiness, the industrialization of the world’s food production system. FORUM2021 explores the ancient, respectful
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Spotlight on Sustainable Development 2021: Demanding Justice Beyond Rhetoric
worldwide/virtualPolicy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic crisis have exacerbated rather than reduced global inequalities. The most visible example of this is the global disparity in the distribution of vaccines. So far more than 60 percent of people in high-income countries have received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, but less than
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Spotlight on Sustainable Development 2021: Demanding Justice Beyond Rhetoric
worldwide/virtualPolicy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic crisis have exacerbated rather than reduced global inequalities. The most visible example of this is the global disparity in the distribution of vaccines. So far more than 60 percent of people in high-income countries have received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, but less than
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From UNGA to COP26 & Beyond: The Future of Climate Governance
worldwide/virtualThe recent Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shows that the world has little chance to achieve agreed climate change mitigation targets in our lifetimes given the continued degradation of the environment. The climate action timelines of many nations are not ambitious enough and current global governance approaches remain weak, lack
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From UNGA to COP26 & Beyond: The Future of Climate Governance
worldwide/virtualThe recent Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shows that the world has little chance to achieve agreed climate change mitigation targets in our lifetimes given the continued degradation of the environment. The climate action timelines of many nations are not ambitious enough and current global governance approaches remain weak, lack
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