What You Need to Know About Fossil Fuels and the Paris Climate Agreement Goals

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Navi Pillay Wins the Nobel! And Trump Goes Nuclear on the ICC | To Save Us From Hell

Get full episode: https://www.globaldispatches.org/50PercentOffAnnual The former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and chair of the UN body that concluded Israel committed genocide in Gaza has won the Nobel Peace Prize. In the first segment of this episode of To S ...  Show more

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It did not receive much attention at the time, but one of the more consequential gatherings at the United Nations during UNGA was a high-level meeting on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response. The meeting was intended to build momentum toward a global Pandemic Agreement ...  Show more

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