Keep pulling the thread on Paris Agreement.
The 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change is not working effectively.
Even if all countries fulfilled their commitments under the Paris Agreement, global temperatures are still projected to increase by more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
China has declared its intention to build its nuclear arsenal to achieve parity with the United States and Russia.
The long-standing taboo against threatening the use of nuclear weapons has been broken multiple times over the last three years in the context of the Ukraine conflict.
The decades-long trend of reducing extreme global poverty reversed in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, marking the first such reversal in 30 years.
The World Bank has concluded that Sustainable Development Goal #1, the elimination of extreme poverty by 2030, is now out of reach.
The veto power effectively exempts the five permanent members of the UN Security Council from the principles and obligations of the UN Charter.
A call to hold a UN charter review conference under Article 109 cannot be vetoed by permanent members of the Security Council, including Russia, the United States, and China.
Emission reduction commitments made by countries under the Paris Agreement are voluntary and lack penalties for non-compliance.
A potential nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan would have global, not just regional, consequences.
Approximately 700 million people currently live in extreme poverty, as defined by the World Bank.
Using a poverty line of $7 per day, 48% of the world's population would be considered poor.