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A Call for Climate Action: Protect Human Rights and Decrease Military Expending
HICC at the Human Rights Council QUNO participated in the climate and environmental discussions held in the 60th session Human...
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‘Deadlock of Imagination’: QUNO Invites Reflection on Approaches to Sustainable Energy Transformation at the Forum on Democracy and Climate Change
Lindsey Fielder Cook, QUNO’s Representative on the Human Impacts of Climate Change, pointed out clear pathways and criteria to achieve...
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QUNO attends the IPCC Plenary in China
This March, QUNO Representative for the Human Impacts of Climate Change participated in the 62nd Session of the Intergovernmental Panel...
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QUNO and the UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn
QUNO Geneva’s Human Impacts of Climate Change (HICC) team, Lindsey Fielder Cook and Johan Cavert, were intensely active at the...
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Sharing the stories of Quaker environmental human rights defenders
QUNO’s Human Impacts of Climate Change Programme recently compiled an official submission to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human...
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QUNO Submissions to the UN Special Rapporteur’s Report on Fossil Fuels and Human Rights
QUNO recently provided three distinct submissions responding to a call for input by UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and...
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HICC statements at the Human Rights Council
QUNO’s Human Impacts of Climate Change Program (HICC) participated in the 58th Session of the Human Rights Council, delivering two...
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QUNO climate briefing paper adapted for academic journal
QUNO shares news that a briefing paper developed and released last year with input from the Human Impacts of Climate...
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QUNO at COP29, Part Two
Attending COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan from 11-22 November 2024, QUNO’s Human Impacts of Climate Change (HICC) program was busy engaging...
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QUNO at COP29, Part One
QUNO Geneva’s Human Impacts of Climate Change Programme has been attending the 29th Conference of the Parties (COP29) in Baku,...
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Quakers on Climate and Peace
QUNO Interim Deputy Director and Representative for the Human Impacts of Climate Change, Lindsey Fielder Cook, recently spoke in two...
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Climate change Global Stocktake must focus on human rights
As the United Nations-led Global Stocktake is being finalised, the Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) has offered two submissions to...
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Climate change: beyond fear and into courage
The Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) consistently monitors developments around climate change. QUNO approaches climate change as a peace and...
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Quakers involvement in the UN Human Rights Prize 2023
Established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1966 and awarded every five years since, the UN Prize in the...
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QUNO at SB58 (5 – 15 June)
QUNO’s team at the recent United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations (SB58) in Bonn (June 5 –...
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New Climate Publication – A Government Official’s Toolkit
QUNO has just published the most recent version of A Government Official’s Toolkit: Inspiring Urgent, Real, and Equitable climate action....
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New Climate Publication – Fair Sources of Finance for a New Loss and Damage Funding Arrangement
Last November, States that took part in COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh agreed to pass a new funding arrangement for responding...
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Countries adopt landmark treaty to protect the world’s oceans
Late in the evening on 4 March 2023, the United Nations adopted a historic treaty to protect the world’s oceans....
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