United Nations published this video item, entitled “Climate, Earthquake & other topics – Daily Press Briefing (13 March 2023)” – below is their description.
Noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.
Highlights:
– Women’s Civil Society Town Hall
– Climate
– Iraq Climate Conference
– Deputy Secretary-General/Lebanon
– Myanmar
– Yemen/Iran
– Syria/Earthquake
– Democratic Republic of the Congo
– Tropical Cyclone Freddy
– Ethiopia
– Briefing Today
– Financial Contribution
WOMEN’S CIVIL SOCIETY TOWN HALL
This morning, the Secretary-General held a Town Hall meeting with representatives of civil society taking part in this year’s Commission on the Status of Women.
Before taking their questions and hearing their views, the Secretary-General thanked attendees for their work. He also noted that after years of incremental progress, women’s and girls’ rights have stalled and gone into reverse.
He also expressed concern about the new source of discrimination and bias that women and girls face in digital technology. The male chauvinist domination of new technologies is undoing decades of progress on women’s rights, and he said with online spaces not being safe for women and girls.
He called on all leaders to urgently take up the recommendations of the UN’s first-ever report on technology, innovation, education and gender equality.
CLIMATE
Earlier today, via video message, the Secretary-General addressed the 58th Session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
He said that for decades, the IPCC has put forward clear, convincing and irrefutable evidence of climate change and the urgent need to take climate action. The facts are not in question, but our actions are, he said, adding that when leaders gather at COP28 for the first global stock taking to bring the world in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement they must understand the enormous consequences of delay and the enormous dividends from making the tough but essential choices.
The Secretary-General underscored that countries need to accelerate the phasing out of fossil fuels and close the emissions gap and race to a carbon-free, renewable future, while helping communities adapt and build resilience to the worst impacts of climate change.
Full Highlights: https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/noon-briefing-highlight
United Nations YouTube Channel
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