Hello, this is Michelle. The Human Rights Council's summer session is entering its third and final week before states focus on decisions and conclusions. Today, attention will turn to the environment, with the UN expert on human rights and climate change, Elisa Morgera, planning to name and shame the main culprit of our climate crisis – the fossil fuel industry.
My colleague, Paula Dupraz-Dobias, spoke to the Italian environmental expert, who was in Bonn for pre-climate talks last week, about her pitch and expectations for Cop30 in Belém this November. Meanwhile, in Seville, the talk this week will be all about money — or the lack of it — and how to rescue the embarrassingly off-track Sustainable Development Goals. |
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The Brazilian exhibition stand during the climate talks in Bonn, Germany, 16 June 2025. (Keystone/EPA/Christopher Neundorf)
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UN expert Elisa Morgera calls out world’s ‘carbon tunnel vision’.
Midway between climate talks in Baku and Belém, the UN’s special rapporteur on climate accuses the fossil fuel industry of violating human rights while benefiting from the climate crisis. But as the UN grapples with existential problems of its own, she warns that the call for climate justice has just become more inaudible.
Geneva Solutions
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CHANCE TO FIX DEVELOPMENT FINANCE.
Heads of state, ministers, economists and campaigners will flock to Seville this week for a key conference on development finance, a high-stakes gathering convened by the UN and aimed at overhauling a global financial system seen as failing the world’s poorest.
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Backdrop.
The conference comes as developing nations face a perfect economic storm of soaring debt, deepening trade tensions and the sudden disappearance of key US aid programmes.
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Great expectations.
States are set to agree on a declaration where they commit to support the Sustainable Development Goals through measures like encouraging more lending from development banks and removing hurdles for private investments in challenging, high-risk settings.
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Cleared hurdle.
The US announced last week it was withdrawing from the conference after initial attempts to block negotiations, reportedly proposing up to 400 amendments to the draft.
Its absence may have eased the path to consensus, but also underscored the vacuum left by the world's biggest donor.
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Also on the agenda
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📌 4 July | Film screeing of The Peace Particle.
Filmed to mark CERN's 70th anniversary, this documentary follows the human stories behind humankind's greatest experiments and how the European nuclear research centre was born from the ashes of war at a time of growing tensions. A discussion will follow with director Alex Kiehl, producer Elin Rhys and some of the featured physicists.
Cern (EN)
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