The Blue Economy and Finance Forum was held on June 7 and 8, 2025 at Monaco's Forum Grimaldi, in partnership with the Principality of Monaco, as a special event of UNOC 2025.

A New Weather Institute report Dirty Tackle – the growing carbon footprint of football released today reveals that the carbon footprint of the global football industry is around the annual emissions of Austria or around 60% more than those of Uruguay, the nation that hosted the first World Cup in 1930. It is also equal to the emissions from burning 150 million barrels of oil.

ARTICLE 19 joins more than 130 news and press freedom organisations in calling on world leaders, governments, and international institutions to act immediately to ensure journalists from outside Gaza are given immediate, independent access to the territory.

Published: 26th May 2025 Today civil society organisations in Brussels are calling on European countries to raise their ambition after the release of a "deeply disappointing" collective EU position in the Council Conclusions "ahead of the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development", taking place in Spain next month.