2023 could be a good year for advancing climate-related issues in the United Nations Security Council.
Analysis
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The UN General Assembly’s COE Working Group has a fork-in-the-road opportunity to advance UN Peacekeeping’s environmental goals.
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The UN should consider both the successes of the whole-of-mission approach and the pitfalls of its ever-burgeoning understanding of PoC.
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Context-specific approaches to peacebuilding that empower local agency are key to the self-sustainability of peace processes.
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A better understanding is needed of where the multilateral system is working, where it is not, and where it is headed.
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As a result of shifting dynamics in certain conflicts, as well as recent coups, the UN is having to engage with de facto authorities in a growing number of country contexts.
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The agreement to establish a fund for loss and damage was a historic win for developing countries, but progress on mitigation stalled at COP27.
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Last week, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) adopted Resolution 2664, a cross-cutting humanitarian carve-out for all UN sanctions regimes–including the 1267 ISIL/al-Qaida regime–to safeguard the timely and effective conduct of humanitarian activities.
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UN missions will need to address the root causes of misinformation and disinformation by proactively reshaping narratives about the UN.
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MONUSCO’s mandate renewal is an opportunity for the UNSC to prove its relevance as a protection actor in the DRC.
