March 2023
Rene Wadlow reports on the agreement reached at the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP 15) in Montreal in December 2022, where delegates adopted a new Global Biodiversity Framework. He weighs the promise of the pledges, the role of civil society, and the risk that implementation and funding could fall short.
June 2019
Global Voice and Partner Organizations have launched 'The Road to 2020,' a series of Global Town Halls held across the United States to develop recommendations for renewing the United Nations ahead of its 75th anniversary in 2020. The initiative has allied with the Common Home of Humanity project, which frames the Earth's biophysical boundaries as the foundation for reformed international environmental law and a potential first step toward world federation.
December 2019
Youth activists gathered at the CUNCR 2019 Climate Justice & Democracy Summit, resulting in the Epirus Declaration for Climate Democracy. This declaration calls for intergenerational justice, global democratic solutions, and the recognition of the rights of the environment.
