Reaching Net Zero
The science is clear: to avoid the most damaging effects of climate change, the world must reach net-zero greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions around mid-century. That...
Twenty Years Of The SCO: Cooperation For Stability And Prosperity
EMOMALI RAHMON
President of the Republic of Tajikistan
Chairman of the Council of Heads of the SCO Member States in 2021
Since the early days of gaining...
World Blood Donor Day – A unit of blood saves three lives
Each year the world commemorates World Blood Donor Day on 14 June in honor of the birth anniversary of Austrian biologist, immunologist, physician and...
CEOs Are the Problem
ExxonMobil recently announced a five-year plan to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and is pumping out ads proclaiming its commitment to a green future. Tobacco giant...
Leveling Up Is Hard to Do
One of the economic challenges facing all Western governments in these uniquely testing times is how to redress geographic inequalities that have emerged over...
Waste Less, Earn More
Our world is extraordinarily inefficient. We waste enormous quantities of energy, water, raw materials, and food. We even waste our waste and the precious...
Closing the vaccination gap
By- JOSEP BORRELL
EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the European Commission
By the end of May 2021, only 2.1 percent of Africans...
France’s role at the United Nations: Peacekeeping and international security
France fully supports UN peacekeeping operations. It is the second troop contributing country among the five permanent members of the Security Council, with 940...
Keeping the peace
STAFF REPORT
Colonel Olivier Passot has been the defence attaché at the French Embassy since 2019, a former UN blue beret, he has served in...
Monitoring the Kuwait-Iraq cease-fire
Christian de COCKBORNE
Please tell us a little bit about your career.
I am Christian de COCKBORNE. I joined the French army in 1979 and became...
