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UN Urged by Own Staff to Look at Its Climate Footprint

Reuters

   GENEVA - More than 1,000 United Nations employees have called for the
   global body to reduce its carbon footprint, including through curbs on
   their own diplomatic perks like business-class flights and travel
   handouts, a letter obtained by Reuters showed.

   The United Nations calls climate change the "defining issue of our
   time" and is hosting a New York summit on it next week.

   But reformers within say in the letter addressed to Secretary-General
   Antonio Guterres that it needs more radical change to get its own house
   in order.

   "Our commitments need to be more ambitious and at least as concrete as
   those of the UN Member States and non-party stakeholders attending the
   UN Climate Action Summit," said the letter, signed by more than 1,000
   employees. It was organized by a group called Young UN, an internal
   network committed to ensuring the organization embodies the principles
   it stands for.

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