U.N. - 30 Settembre 2019 The Performance of Trump at the UN and the Manifest Destiny of US Decline The thunderbolt burst, of all places, in the Technicolor gold and ochre setting of the United Nations in New York. The annual ritual of the General Assembly had just begun with a highly ambitious urgent agenda: how to cope with climate change and how to move the planet – as the world community had agreed […]
Economia - 26 Settembre 2019 Siamo in piena Quarta Rivoluzione industriale: che ne sarà dell’essere umano? Klaus Schwab, fondatore del World Economic Forum: "L’incremento demografico ha consentito aspettative di consumo inconciliabili con le risorse del nostro pianeta, mentre l’evoluzione delle nostre società ed economie si sta sostanzialmente rivelando incompatibile con obiettivi come inclusione, eguaglianza e pari opportunità per tutti. Queste innovazioni possono rivelarsi disastrose: in particolare, gli inconvenienti dovuti alle tecnologie di ultimissima generazione pongono seri interrogativi addirittura sul valore della persona umana”.
Onu - 25 Settembre 2019 Trump alla guida dei populisti all’ONU con lo spettro dell’impeachment La 74esima sessione dell’Assemblea Generale delle Nazioni Unite è entrata nel vivo: all’apertura dei lavori martedì mattina, le prime tre ore di dibattito generale hanno visto il susseguirsi di quattro uomini forti e dei loro proclami sovranisti. Dal continente americano, Jair Bolsonaro per il Brasile e Donald Trump per gli USA hanno riportato l’aula indietro […]
U.N. - 21 Settembre 2019 Guterres Urges Leaders to “Do What is Necessary” for Peace and the Planet The UN Secretary General hopes of bolstering the Paris Agreement on climate change and the ambitious goals that are the bedrock of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In a special interview for UN News conducted this week by newly-appointed head of Global Communications, Melissa Fleming, Mr. Guterres lamented that “we are not on track” to meet a 2030 deadline in many aspects, highlighting that the first-ever SDG summit on 24 and 25 September, will inject more momentum. The UN chief told Ms. Fleming that “more and more of the crises we face, have a multiplicity of factors, from different parts of the world” and resolving these issues begs “more international cooperation” with the UN firmly “at the centre of it.”
U.N. - 18 Settembre 2019 Was Former GA Pres. Espinosa’s Success Enough to Reach the Helm of UN? As one of the final acts as President of the General Assembly, Ms. Espinosa passed the gavel on to the new President, Mr. Tijjani Muhammad-Bande of Nigeria. Nigeria’s former UN representative banged the gavel to open his year in office as the President of the 74th session of the General Assembly on September 17, 2019. As he addressed the General Assembly in his inaugural speech, Mr. Muhammad-Bande said he would “collaborate and coordinate” with the Security Council, and the Secretariat “to ensure that greater attention is paid to prevention rather than reaction to full blown conflict.”