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Final Theme Selected for the 2021 United Nations Environment Assembly
How many more reports do we need to face reality? We must change our food systems to save the environment, and ourselves.
African Ministers Conference on the Environment - Very little space for civil society engagement
Food loss and waste: implications for human, environmental and animal well-being
Negotiations on a Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework - Updating the Strategic Plan of the Convention on Biological Diversity
World Animal Net Gains Accreditation at the United Nations Environment Assembly
World Animal Net (WAN) is pleased to announce that we now have received formal accreditation as a Nongovernmental Organization (NGO) at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). While WAN has held consultative statues with the United Nations Economic and Social Council since 2001, this new accreditation unlocks opportunities for advocacy for animals within another body of the United Nations (UN).
Six Reasons Animal Advocates Should Participate in the People’s Climate March (and Why Environmentalists Should Listen to Them)
WAN participated in the 2014 People’s Climate March, where we brought a giant inflatable cow emblazoned with the words, “I’m full of greenhouse gases, do you have steak in it?” Three years later, we are proud partners of the People’s Climate March, which will take place April 29th. There will be numerous marches in the United States, but also around the world. As partners of the March, we want to take the opportunity to call on animal advocates to take part in the March.
Climate Change: Will the Elephant Come Out of the Closet in Paris?
The Paris Climate Conference
The next annual Conference of the Parties (COP 21) of the UN Framework on Climate Change – also called the 2015 Paris Climate Conference - will take place in Paris from November 30th to December 11th. This issue is in the words of Pope Francis: “a principal challenge for humanity”, and this will be a crucial conference, as it needs to achieve a new international agreement on the climate, applicable to all countries, with the aim of keeping global warming below 2°C. It is expected to attract close to 50,000 participants including 25,000 official delegates from government, intergovernmental organisations, UN agencies, NGOs and civil society.