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Wildlife trafficking has not substantially reduced over the past two decades, despite positive signs in reducing trafficking of iconic species like elephant and rhino, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) reported in Vienna on Monday. "The global scope and scale of wildlife crime remain substantial with seizures during 2015–2021 indicating an illegal trade in 162 countries and territories affecting around 4,000 plant and animal species," the office's third edition of the World Wildlife Crime Report says. During the six-year period, around 13 million individual animals and plants had been s...
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A group of African countries on Monday called for a planned international treaty on protecting genetic resources and traditional knowledge to provide for sanctions on companies or countries that infringe its provisions. "Our group supports adequate sanctions to ensure the treaty is enforced," the Kenyan representative said in Geneva, speaking on behalf of group. The concluding round for a new United Nations treaty has begun in the Swiss city after more than 20 years of talks. The aim is to conclude the treaty by May 24. The new treaty aims to prevent what is termed "biopiracy" – the theft of g...
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The 194 member countries of the World Health Organization (WHO) have failed to achieve a breakthrough on a long-sought pandemic preparedness treaty. The latest round of negotiations began nearly two weeks ago in Geneva and were described as the UN health agency's final push to forge an agreement on a draft text. The next steps are unclear. The goal was to have the so-called "pandemic treaty" adopted at this year's World Health Assembly, which is the WHO's supreme decision-making body. The meeting is due to be held starting at the end of May. In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, WHO members ca...
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April 2024 was the 11th month in a row with record-breaking global temperatures, EU scientists said. It was also the first recorded April with a global average temperature of over 15 degrees Celsius, according to data from the EU climate change service Copernicus. According to Copernicus boss Carlo Buontempo, the increasing concentration of greenhouse gases "will keep pushing the global temperature towards new records." The air temperature at the surface averaged 15.03 degrees Celsius in April, 0.67 degrees Celsius higher than the April average for the years 1991 to 2020, the service said on W...
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Renewable sources of energy now account for over 30% of the world's electricity generation, according to a report published by a think tank on Wednesday. "Growth in solar and wind pushed the world past 30% renewableelectricity for the first time in 2023," said a press release by Ember, an energy think tank. According to Ember's report, the share of energy produced using renewable sources grew from 19% in 2000 to over 30% in 2023. All of that growth was down to increased use of wind and solar power. The share of hydroelectric generation and other renewables in total energy production declined d...
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Palestinian journalists covering the war in Gaza have been awarded a prize celebrating press freedom, the UN's cultural and scientific body UNESCO announced. The journalists were awarded the 2024 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize on Thursday evening in Chile. "In these times of darkness and hopelessness, we wish to share a strong message of solidarity and recognition to those Palestinian journalists who are covering this crisis in such dramatic circumstances," jury chair Mauricio Weibel said. "As humanity, we have a huge debt to their courage and commitment to freedom of expressi...
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The 194 member countries of the World Health Organization (WHO) began a final push to reach an agreement on a pandemic preparedness treaty in Geneva on Monday, with the draft text criticized as too weak by several stakeholders. The talks, which last 12 days, are expected to be vexed as representatives race to meet a looming deadline to finalize the text. In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, WHO members called for an robust accord aimed at ensuring countries are better equipped to handle the next catastrophic outbreak and have the global response be less chaotic. For instance, advocates want t...
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A two-day international conference on autonomous weapons began in Vienna on Monday with warnings about the use of such systems by terrorists and war criminals. There is currently no guarantee that these artificial intelligence-powered systems will not fall into the wrong hands, Mirjana Spoljaric Egger, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), warned at the talks. "This is why it is so important to act, and to act very fast," she said. Austria organized the conference, entitled "Humanity at the Crossroads: Autonomous Weapons Systems and the Challenge of Regulation," aft...
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A two-day international conference on autonomous weapons systems is to begin in Vienna on Monday. The Foreign Ministry issued invitations to the conference, entitled "Humanity at the Crossroads: Autonomous Weapons Systems and the Challenge of Regulation," after expert negotiations under UN auspices in Geneva over the past 10 years failed to lead to talks at the diplomatic level. Around 130 countries, along with the UN, non-governmental organizations and research institutes, are expected to attend. Weapons systems that independently select and strike targets using artificial intelligence (AI) a...
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The 194 member countries of the World Health Organization (WHO) will begin a final push to reach an agreement on a pandemic preparedness treaty in Geneva on Monday. In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, WHO members called for an accord aimed at ensuring countries are better equipped to handle the next catastrophic outbreak and have the global response be less chaotic. For instance, advocates want the planned treaty to include a supply chain network coordinated by the WHO so that all countries have access to the medicines they need in an emergency without trade restrictions. Similarly, part of ...
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