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North Korea missile tests ‘deeply troubling’: senior UN official UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe Mohamed Khaled Khiari, Assistant Secretary-General for the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific, briefs the Security Council meeting on Non-proliferation/Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.         11 December 2019 Peace and Security Recent developments concerning North Korea’s nuclear and ballistic missile programmes are “deeply troubling”, the UN’s Assistant Secretary-General for the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific said on Wednesday, briefed the Security Council. The first element of concern outlined by Khaled Khiari, was the resumption of missiles testing by DPRK, more commonly known as North Korea, which include the launch of two projectiles on November 28, and the announcement of a test which some analysts believe, he said, were designed to further North Korea’s nuclear programme. Further announcements by State media include referenc

Xie Zhenhua: China’s top climate negotiator steps down Li Jing 09.12.2019 Li Jing considers the legacy of a key architect of the Paris Agreement and one of the world’s longest-serving climate diplomats Xie Zhenhua addressing last year’s UN climate talks (Image:  IISD ) As world leaders arrive in Madrid for a second week of climate talks, missing among the familiar faces will be Xie Zhenhua, China’s climate negotiator for over a decade. In his place, Zhao Yingmin, vice minister of ecology and environment, will head the Chinese delegation. There’s unlikely to be an official announcement but multiple sources have told  China Dialogue  that Xie has left his position as the country’s special representative on climate change. Xie has steered China’s climate diplomacy since 2007, and has been critical to forging agreement on international climate action to avoid dangerous global warming. China has become the world’s largest annual emitter of greenhouse gases ov

Rise in Caribbean children displaced by storms shows climate crisis is a child rights issue: UNICEF © UNICEF/UN0119399/ A seven-year old boy stands in front of debris as Hurricane Irma moves off from the northern coast of the Dominican Republic.         6 December 2019 Climate Change The number of Caribbean children displaced by storms has risen approximately six-fold in the past five years, the UN Children’s Fund ( UNICEF ) reveals in a new  report  released on Friday.  Catastrophic tropical cyclones and hurricanes uprooted an estimated 761,000 children in the region between 2014 and 2018, which also was the hottest five-year period on record.  UNICEF ✔ @UNICEF John was separated from his home, friends and toys after Hurricane Dorian devastated parts of the Bahamas. UNICEF is helping children deal with increasingly extreme weather across the Caribbean. # COP25 # ClimateAction 252 4:30

Deliver ‘significant results now’, UN General Assembly President tells COP25 climate conference WMO/Injoo Hong Storm clouds forming over Banghwa-ri in Gyeongsangnam-do, Republic of Korea.         10 December 2019 Climate Change It is “imperative” that the  COP25  climate conference underway in Spain delivers “significant results now”, Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, President of the UN General Assembly (PGA), said on Tuesday. “Science is unequivocal on the urgency to act, both at global and national levels”, he told the conference to address the climate crisis - officially known as the 25th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change ( UNFCCC ). The official opening ceremony of the high-level segment of the 25th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, known as COP 25. (10 December 2019), by UN Climate Change/James Dowson Mr. Muhammad-Bande recalled the consens