Around 50 school pupils took over the Vienna International Centre (VIC) on World Environment Day to lay out how they would like their city to look in the future.
There was an inspiring and motivating atmosphere when high school students from the HTL Spengergasse came to the UN in Vienna to play the “World Climate Game”. While playing the participants had the unique opportunity to understand the global consequences of climate change and explore various courses of action.
During a two-day Model United Nations simulation conference, students from various universities across Austria came together at the Vienna International Centre (VIC) to discuss different aspects of environmental migration to find common ground and come up with solutions.
A large number of young people took part in the UN Climate Change conference in Dubai – COP28 – among them two youth delegates, Pavol Beblavý from Slovakia and Rok Dolenc from Slovenia. They shared their experience of being at COP28 with us.
Over the last couple of years inflation has caused a cost-of-living crisis across large parts of the world. Some fearmongeres have used the hardship this has caused billions of people to propagate rhetoric that climate change action is unaffordable and running against the interests of ordinary people. Nothing could be further from the truth.
The planet is experiencing a dangerous decline in nature as a result of human activity. It is experiencing its largest loss of life since the dinosaurs. One million plant and animal species are now threatened with extinction, many within decades.
United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs promotes international cooperation in the peaceful use and exploration of space and in the utilization of space science and technology for sustainable economic and social development. Climate action is among the key priorities of the Office in the quest to maximize access to space benefits for everyone, everywhere. The visit to the United Nations premises in Vienna of Dr Katherine Calvin, NASA’s Chief Scientist and Senior Climate Advisor offered a unique opportunity to pick her brain about these topics.
Urgent climate action can secure a liveable future for all, said scientists in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report.
The solution lies in climate resilient development. This involves integrating measures to adapt to climate change with actions to reduce or avoid greenhouse gas emissions in ways that provide wider benefits.
From 19 – 20 February 2023, an international policy hackathon on Climate Justice took place at the Vienna International Centre, organized by the Austrian Non-Governmental Organization, Südwind, in co-operation with UNIS Vienna.
The Ciné-ONU Vienna screening of “THE TERRITORY”, gave an immersive on-the-ground look at the tireless fight of the Indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau people against the encroaching deforestation brought by farmers and illegal settlers in the Brazilian Amazon.
Water flows through all major global issues; from health to hunger, gender equity to jobs, education to industry, disasters to peace.
For that reason, it has to be made an integral part of all global meetings to do with making the world a better, safer and fairer place. Right now, this is not the case.
This year’s UN Climate Conference takes place in Sharm el-Sheikh, against a backdrop of extreme weather events worldwide, an energy crisis propelled by the war in Ukraine, and scientific data reiterating that the world is not doing enough to tackle carbon emissions and protect the future of our planet.
