Former UN Climate Chief join Homeward Bound: Unique initiative prepares women for leadership

Kolkata/IBNS: Former Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Christiana Figueres, recently joined Homeward Bound, a global leadership initiative for women with a background in Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths and Medicine (STEMM).

COP21: a 'green' UN climate change conference, from electric cars to the power of human energy

New York, Dec 15 (Just Earth News/IBNS): With countries reaching a new agreement at the United Nations climate change conference (COP21), the global meeting has been qualified as a "monumental triumph" by top UN officials. While many continued to hail the outcome document as the walls of COP21 were torn down on Sunday, the UN News Centre looked back on other aspects that contributed "positive energy" to the two-week event.

COP21: UN chief hails new climate change agreement as 'monumental triumph'

Le Bourget, Dec 13 (IBNS): Following the adoption of the new Paris Agreement on climate change, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said government representatives made history on Saturday.