An ambitious global #PlasticsTreaty could help transform the way:
🏭 we produce
🥤 we consume
🗑️ we dispose of plastics.
This week, negotiators are coming together in Paris to debate how to #BeatPlasticPollution. Here is what you need to know:
At the Second Session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution, @UNDP recommends that we ‘Leave no one behind’. In these important negotiations, we must consider the human side of addressing the plastic problem. @UNEP
"Humanity has a choice: cooperate or perish.“
Speaking at the World Leaders Summit at #COP27, UN Secretary-General @antonioguterres called for a historic pact between developed and emerging economies" to avoid runaway #ClimateChange.
Where are your recycling facilities @BrisbaneAirport ??!! Most major airports (and some smaller ones too) around the world have recycling bins. It’s time to catch up!
Our continued dependence on fossil fuels gives Putin huge leverage in this war.
Fossil fuels are the fuels of tyranny.
The faster we make them irrelevant, the closer we are to stripping tyrants of their ability to make endless war.
The use of force by one country against another is wrong, against the @UN Charter, and unacceptable.
But it is not irreversible.
I repeat my appeal to President Putin:
Stop the military operation in Ukraine.
Bring the troops back to Russia.
The decisions of the coming days will shape our world and directly affect the lives of millions upon millions of people - in Ukraine, in Russia, and beyond.
It’s not too late to save this generation from the scourge of war.
We need peace.
Under the present circumstances, I must change my appeal:
President Putin, in the name of humanity, bring your troops back to Russia.
This conflict must stop now.
During the #COVID19 pandemic, teachers have:
💪Shown resilience
🧑🏫 Adapted teaching methods
📣Spoken up for their rights and students' rights
💙Supported their students in uncertain times
On #EducationDay, let's say thank you.
"We neglect narrative work at our own peril. Stories are the current through which we understand the world, whoever we are, and whatever we do."
Don't miss the latest from our Global Managing Director, Simon Goff @goffsi on salience & social change :
https://t.co/3SBt7kx7Fp
“Code red, code red... Earth to COP... 1.5 is what we need to survive...try harder, try harder... the world needs our action now!” - Barbados’ Prime Minister, Mia Amor Mottley #COP26
“In my lifetime, I’ve witnessed a terrible decline. In yours, you could and should witness a wonderful recovery... it’s why you are here!” - Sir David Attenborough #COP26
“It’s time to say ‘enough’... the science is clear, we know what to do... we must listen and we must act and we must choose wisely... choose ambition, choose solidarity, choose to safe guard our future and save humanity!” - António Guterres #COP26
“That desperate hope, is why the world is looking to you and why you are here”
-- Sir David Attenborough, #COP26 People's Advocate, speaking at the Opening Ceremony.
#TogetherForOurPlanet
The climate crisis is here. #COP26 must be a turning point to protect people and the planet.
Leaders, the world is watching and urging you to rise to this moment. There’s no time to lose. #ActNow. https://t.co/zruhUorFCX
@UN@antonioguterres@COP26