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Topic: United Nations (page 3)

Working oil pumps against a sunset sky (Getty Images/imaginima)

UN head calls for taxing Big Oil profits

Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams
Solar panels and wind turbines (Getty Images/zf L)

Clean energy: We can't miss this moment

Carl Pope
A destroyed tank likely belonging to Russia / pro-Russian forces lies amidst rubble in the north of the ruined city. The battle between Russian / Pro Russian forces and the defencing Ukrainian forces lead by Azov battalion continues in the port city of Mariupol. (Maximilian Clarke/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

What really caused the war in Ukraine?

Jane Shevtsov
Large recycled plastic fish sculpture in Helsingor situated infront of the Kronborg Castle in Helsingor in Denmark (Getty Images/James D. Morgan)

UN recognizes plastic pollution crisis

Eric Schank
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky meets UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in Kyiv, Ukraine on 28 April 2022. (Ukrainian Presidency/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Peace in Ukraine: How U.S. can help

Nicolas J.S. Davies
Carbon Dioxide Emissions (Getty Images)

Why the UN climate report gives me hope

Sarah Burch - Undark
Albert Einstein, Mahatma Gandhi and Wendell Willkie (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

A Republican who wanted world government

Matthew Rozsa
Firefighters and volunteers try to contain the flames destroying forests and wildlife in Corrientes, Argentina on February 19, 2022. (Joaquin Meabe/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

UN report warns of dire future for Earth

Eric Schank
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Cal firefighter Travis Moore lights a backfire along highway 50 as the Caldor Fire burns near Lake Tahoe, CA on Tuesday August 31, 2021. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Climate change spurs 50% more wildfires

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
Climate activists from 'Fridays for Future' take part in a protest against the G20 of World Leaders Summit on October 30, 2021 between the Pyramid of Cestius and Circo Massimo in Rome. (ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty Images)

Can "street heat" save us from disaster?

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
Looking up a word in the dictionary (Getty Images/JGI/Jamie Grill)

"Climate crisis" is now in dictionaries

Kate Yoder - Grist
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about combatting the coronavirus pandemic in the State Dining Room of the White House on September 9, 2021 in Washington, DC. As the Delta variant continues to spread around the United States, Biden outlined his administration's six point plan, including a requirement that all federal workers be vaccinated against Covid-19. Biden is also instructing the Department of Labor to draft a rule mandating that all businesses with 100 or more employees require their workers to get vaccinated or face weekly testing. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Biden: U.S. has "turned the page" on war

Rocio Fabbro
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Climate change and environmental disasters (Getty Images/Roy Scott)

Is fear about climate change enough?

Kate Yoder - Grist
Former US President Donald Trump and Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

UN report debunks GOP climate denial

Igor Derysh
Smallpox virus (CDC)

Checking for bioweapon treaty violations

Gary Samore - The Conversation
Earth in a trash bag (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

29 years to save the ocean from plastic

Matthew Rozsa
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US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken | Destroyed residential buildings in Palestine (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

So much for Tony Blinken's "rules"

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
United Nation's Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq, Denis Halliday (L), walks with UN chief Kofi Annan's special assistant Shashi Tharoor of India, Annan's political advisor Rolf Knutsson of Sweden (2nd L) and the head of the Iraqi foreign ministry protocol, Qais al-Karkhi, 19 February in Baghdad. Annan sent a UN advance team to Iraq ahead of a last-ditch effort to end a standoff over weapons inspections and avert a military strike. (KARIM SAHIB/AFP via Getty Images)

UN rebel on the collapse of world order

Nicolas J.S. Davies
Mike Lewis and Shelby Floyd in a hemp field in Kentucky. (Photo credit: ) (Anna Carson Dewitt Photography, courtesy of Third Wave Farms)

UN commission reclassifies cannabis

Phillip Smith - Independent Media Institute
Former US Secretary of State and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton (DAVID GANNON/AFP/Getty Images)

Biden considering Clinton for Cabinet?

Bob Brigham - Raw Story
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The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during the 2nd day of the World Government Summit in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Monday, Feb. 13, 2017. Guterres said Monday that he "deeply regrets" the United States' decision to block a former Palestinian prime minister from leading the world body's political mission in Libya. Antonio Guterres says that Salam Fayyad was "the right person for the right job at the right moment." (AP Photo) (AP)

UN chief: recession for the planet

Evelyn Leopold - Independent Media Institute
FILE - In this Tuesday Feb. 14, 2012 file photo, Libyan militias from towns throughout the country's west parade through Tripoli, Libya. At the heart of the Libyan capital, the open-air Fish Market was once where residents went to buy everything from meat and seafood to clothes and pets. Now it’s Tripoli’s biggest arms market, with tables displaying pistols and assault rifles. Ask a vendor, and he can pull out bigger machine guns to sell for thousands of dollars. (AP Photo/Abdel Magid Al Fergany, File) (AP)

Why the war in Libya will never end

Vijay Prashad - Independent Media Institute
Qassem Soleimani and Agnes Callamard (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez/Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader)

UN official wants Soleimani probe

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin (Ricardo Ceppi/Getty Images/ AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Russia nervous after US attack on Iran

Matthew Rozsa
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