Geneva Solutions • 22nd April 2024

Workers face rising threat from climate change, ILO warns

As global temperatures breach new heights and warnings multiply on the need for rapid action, the International Labour Organization (ILO) reported on Monday on the stark toll weather extremes are having on workers, hoping to nudge forward upcoming discussions on the issue.

The New Humanitarian • 17th April 2024

Latin America makes it harder for Venezuelan refugees as xenophobia mounts

Venezuelan refugees and migrants across Latin America face rising xenophobia and growing challenges to integrate into host countries, even as President Nicolás Maduro’s latest wave of repression ahead of July elections threatens new migration outflows.

Geneva Solutions • 11th April 2024

Geneva to be the ‘neutral’ home for loss and damage technical body

After December’s Cop28 climate conference in Dubai left many participants feeling once again that not enough boxes had been ticked on the long to-do list for fighting climate change, countries finally agreed last month to establish a body providing technical assistance on loss and damage in Geneva.

Geneva Solutions • 9th April 2024

UN agency rebrands amid budgetary strains and political ambitions

Six decades after the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development was established to defend developing nations' role in global trade, Rebeca Grynspan, the organisation’s secretary general, said that the time has come for its image to be refreshed.

Geneva Solutions • 1st April 2024

Human-driven environmental changes in Galápagos face global pushback

Nearly two centuries after Charles Darwin’s visit to the Galápagos archipelago off South America’s Pacific coast led scientists to consider how species adapt through evolution, the rapid pace of environmental change has international organisations calling for policy resets.

Geneva Solutions • 28th February 2024

Nicaragua turning into ‘tropical North Korea’, says exiled former opponent

As the Human Rights Council prepares to review Nicaragua’s human rights record, former political prisoner Félix Maradiaga, on a visit to Geneva, says he wants the international community to view his country in the same light as other authoritarian regimes.

Geneva Solutions • 15th February 2024

New season brings new blood to Geneva human rights film festival

A year after Geneva’s human rights film festival announced the sudden departure of its director, a new management team presented the upcoming season’s programme which includes Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dimitri Muratov and civil rights icon Angela Davis.

Geneva Solutions • 14th February 2024

WTO gives up on waiving IP rights for Covid drugs and tests - Geneva Solutions

After years of deliberations, countries have articulated irreconcilable splits over whether to extend a waiver to IP rights for Covid-19 vaccines to include therapeutics and diagnostics. This was made clear in draft reports published Tuesday, a day ahead of the World Trade Organizations’s (WTO) global trade body’s General Council meeting. Countries partly agreed in 2022 to an India and South Africa-led proposal to waive IP rights but only for jabs while leaving a decision on tests and drugs for

Geneva Solutions • 5th February 2024

AI transparency: where should the goalpost be planted?

As policymakers play catch-up with the fast pace of technology, experts from industry, academia and civil society say ensuring transparency in artificial intelligence is not as straightforward as some may wish.

The New Humanitarian • 29th January 2024

Services under threat after UN emergency funding for gender-based violence runs out

The day after Luz Vargas crossed the border from Venezuela into Colombia, a group of men forced her into a car and told her to forget her family in Venezuela. She would not be able to contact them again, they said. Vargas thought they were joking. The former radiology assistant, now 38, decided in 2018 to leave her three children in Caracas to find a better-paying radiology job in Colombia. A friend arranged the transportation. She soon realised that her friend worked for traffickers. “They to

Geneva Press Club • 25th January 2024

WTO’s 13th ministerial conference: believing in miracles: A Geneva Solutions talk

Geneva Solutions • 25th January 2024

Improving menstrual health comes down to money. Period.

On any given day, it is part of the lives of roughly 800 million women globally. But roughly half of menstruating women and girls lack basic sanitary products, keeping many of them away from school benches and work opportunities, and ultimately stifling economic potential and development. NGOs and authorities say it is time that investors take note.

Geneva Solutions • 19th January 2024

Move over, AI: climate finance geeks talk just transition in Davos

Barely a month after climate negotiators agreed on a nebulous timeline to transition away from fossil fuels, some participants in Davos were trying to ensure this week that the process is done in a “​​just, orderly and equitable manner” as the final Dubai document states.

swissinfo.ch • 19th January 2024

Where the world – and Switzerland – stands on carbon offsets after COP28

Switzerland has doubled down on its strategy to offset its emissions abroad. But after the latest round of United Nations climate talks in Dubai, questions continue to swirl around the details and effectiveness of carbon markets. A look at where things stand.

Geneva Solutions • 14th January 2024

Davos 2024: Wef kicks off amid doubts and pessimism

Set to run this week under the catch-all title of “Rebuilding Trust”, the World Economic Forum’s flagship event will again draw world leaders from politics and business to what has become a sprawling networking event. But how much of what is discussed in the mountain resort remains relevant?

Geneva Solutions • 10th January 2024

Ground zero for aid response: inside the UN's vast Dubai delivery hub

A logistics programme run by the World Food Programme is having to juggle growing humanitarian needs amid the rising effects of climate change, protracted regional conflicts and donor fatigue. Geneva Solutions visited the United Nations Humanitarian Response Depot’s main hub in Dubai to find out how.

Al Jazeera • 13th December 2023

Can Indigenous inclusivity be the key to successful carbon markets?

Indigenous communities at COP28 stress they be part of climate solutions on carbon offsets as their lands are at play.

Geneva Solutions • 13th December 2023

Amber light or North Star? Cop28 agrees on ‘transition away’ from fossil fuels

A final compromise decision at the climate talks in Dubai was gaveled on Wednesday, leaving some dismayed, while others say it contains a clear roadmap for work ahead on climate action.

Geneva Solutions • 12th December 2023

Climate talks at a crossroads in Dubai

DUBAI — Outdoor temperatures rose into the upper 20s Celsius on Tuesday as negotiators returned to the Cop28 venue hoping for a breakthrough in talks after a draft the night before that prompted heated response from a wide array of countries.

Geneva Solutions • 11th December 2023

Carbon markets require rights focus, say NGOs at Cop28

DUBAI – As the clock ticks at the United Nations climate talks with a multitude of major issues remaining unresolved, country experts huddling in one of the many air-conditioned tents set up in the vast Expo City venue in Dubai are being tasked to finalise a document that is key to how companies and countries may offset their emissions.