2025 UN Ocean Conference

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The high-level 2025 United Nations Conference to Support the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development (the 2025 UN Ocean Conference) will be co-hosted by France and Costa Rica and held in Nice, France, from 9 – 13 June 2025.

Deliberative Polls, Citizens' Conventions and Other Types of Random Assemblies

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Conference on James Fishkin's new book, Can Deliberation Cure the Ills of Democracy? and two different experiments in citizens' assemblies, in France and the United States, on climate and energy: - the French Citizens’ Convention on Climate/ La Convention citoyenne pour le climat (C3) - and America in One Room (AOR)

DELIBERATIVE APPROACHES TO INCLUSIVE GOVERNANCE

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An Essay Series Part of the Democratic Legitimacy for AI Initiative

Greenpeace activists disrupt industrial fishing operation ahead of UN Ocean Conference

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Pacific Ocean – Greenpeace activists have disrupted an industrial longlining fishing operation in the South Pacific Ocean, seizing almost 20 kilometers of fishing gear and freeing nine sharks, including an endangered mako, near Australia and New Zealand.

GEO-7 Summary for Policymakers

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This meeting is co-hosted by the Government of the Republic of Korea and the Korea Environment Institute (KEI). On the side of these two events, the GEO-7 experts will also participate in the 2025 World Environment Day celebrations as well as the Korea Environment Institute Science-policy Forum.

Climate Litigation Updates (May 30, 2025)

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By Margaret Barry and Maria Antonia Tigre May 30, 2025

“Springboard for Solutions”: Highlights from the First Climate Week of 2025 26 May 2025

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UN Climate Change News, 26 May 2025 – The first revamped Climate Week of 2025 concluded in Panama City last week, with valuable progress made and real-world solutions shared across vital areas of work.

Breaking new ground: United Nations Volunteers and University of Pretoria set to launch first-ever Global Volunteer Index

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In a bold step to elevate the value of volunteerism, United Nations Volunteers (UNV) and the University of Pretoria (UP) are set to launch the Global Volunteer Index (GVI) in Ekurhuleni, east of Johannesburg, on 2 June 2025.

Climate Risk Index 2025

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The Climate Risk Index (CRI) ranks countries by the human and economic toll of extreme weather. The latest edition highlights increasing losses and the urgent need for stronger climate resilience and action.

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