Articles about 'United Nations'

Cambridge Zero symposium gathers researchers to examine the rules and incentives needed to combat climate change.

How a Cambridge professor helped the climate-embattled nation of Vanuatu put the question of global warming to the International Court of Justice for the first time in history.

Professor Marc Weller, a leading expert in international law and advisor on a large number of peace negotiations, debunks in turn Russia’s attempts to invoke international law.

The University helps the United Nations launch a new 'Ecosystem Accounting' framework: allowing governments to better include and reflect nature in their post-pandemic economic recovery.

The basic human rights of autistic people are not being met, Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, a world expert on autism, told the United Nations in New York today, to mark Autism Awareness Week.

Research by an expert in peacebuilding shows how international ideas, practices and language of conflict resolution are transformed when they meet African “realities and politics on the ground”.

A new study using extensive eyewitness accounts re-examines the causes and legacy of Angola's brutal 27-year civil war, once described by the United Nations as "the worst war in the world".

Sociologists David Stuckler and Sridhar Venkatapuram discuss how tensions within society are slowing down the process of combating disease worldwide.

A major conference examining how the emergence of Brazil, Russia, India and China as leading world powers should be accommodated by the international community will take place at Cambridge University later this month.

The business leaders of over 500 companies from around the world will this morning publish The Copenhagen Communiqué calling on world leaders to agree "an ambitious, robust and equitable global deal on climate change that responds credibly to the scale and urgency of the crisis facing the world today".