UN’s crucial contribution to combatting climate change

Through the UN conference process, the entire international community has come together to agree on shared values, goals, and strategies to achieve them. This effort shows one of the UN's greatest strengths: the ability to move from consciousness raising to agenda setting to agreement on action by member states.

It is the United Nations that has put the climate agenda on the table, and it is through the UN that we must take global action to solve the problem.The Hill Times file photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY JOHN TRENT

October 18, 2019

The youth have led the way, and they are quite right. Humanity must do much more about climate change if we're to save the planet. The question is where to begin. Normally, it would be with the United Nations. But there seems to...

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