The Lid is On Podcast
1) International community prepares to tackle marine life extinction threat
In this episode of The Lid Is On, experts discuss the urgent need to restore the Ocean, which is facing a host of threats that could drive millions of marine life species into extinction and even enda...Show More
2) Global shipping faces a climate reckoning
The shipping industry moves 90% of world trade—and produces nearly 3% of global greenhouse gas emissions. In this episode, Arsenio Dominguez, Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organizati...Show More
3) The $300,000 scam that entrapped a US-based woman from Thailand
A Thai woman has been talking about how she was tricked into handing over more than $300,000 to a criminal gang that entrapped her in an elaborate scam that began as a supposed case of identity fraud ...Show More
4) 'If countries stop playing by trade rules, poorer countries will suffer'
In this episode of The Lid Is On, Conor Lennon from UN News speaks to Luz Maria de la Mora, the Director of the International Trade Division at UNCTAD, about the uncertainty that unilateral tarif...Show More
5) Is feminism under attack?
The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, a key UN policy document adopted in 1995, has been credited for several major advances for women, from legislation outlawing domestic abuse to inspirin...Show More
6) COP29 delivers climate finance boost, but much more needed to help developing nations cope with the crisis
Just 35 hours later than advertised, the UN Climate Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan wrapped up, with an agreement to triple the amount of climate finance paid to developing nations to $300 billion per ...Show More
7) Will COP29 deliver the trillions needed to halt the man-made climate crisis?
COP29, this year’s UN Climate Conference, is being called the “climate finance COP”, because delegates are expected to sign off on a beefed-up funding target to replace the existing $100 billion per y...Show More
Will COP29 deliver the trillions needed to halt the man-made climate crisis?
19:32 | Nov 15th, 2024
8) Focus on the Future: Peace, out
The risk of the world’s major powers engaging in conflict is at its highest level since the Cold War, and the possibility of nuclear war breaking out is greater today than it has been for severa...Show More
9) Focus on the Future: A world in dangerous waters
In the Pact for the Future UN Member States pledged to do more to fight the climate crisis, a subject that has dominated several sessions at UN Headquarters this week.On Thursday’s episode of Focus on...Show More
10) Focus on the Future: The World arrives
Reforming the Security Council, to make it more representative of today’s world, has been under discussion for decades. The subject made it into the Pact for the Future, adopted earlier this week. Doe...Show More