Photo Credits: Society & Diplomatic Review The 2nd Annual Sustainable Goals Banquet was held on Monday, September 19th at the elegant 583 Park Avenue event space. The event was attended by UN Ambassadors, heads of delegations, diplomats, fashion and entertainment VIPs, and prominent climate change activists. Both the luncheon and banquet gathered first ladies and royals from around the globe, as well as diplomats, philanthropists, fashion VIPs, and other key influencers to ce

Photo Credits: Society & Diplomatic Review: Panelists Olugbenga Olubanjo, Founder and CEO, Reeddi, The Earthshot Prize Finalist, 2021; Dr. Sebastian Groh, Founder and CEO, SOLshare, The Earthshot Prize Finalist, 2021; Gator Halpern, Co-Founder and President, Coral Vita, The Earthshot Prize Winner, 2021; Earthshot finalists/winners Bloomberg Philanthropies hosted the first-ever United Nations Climate Action: Race to Zero and Resilience Forum convened heads of state and leaders

Photo Credits: Society & Diplomatic Review The Global Africa Business Initiative Presents: Unstoppable Africa Under the leadership of the Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations, Amina J. Mohammed, the inaugural Global Africa Business Initiative is designed to place Africa in its proper spot on the world stage, bringing to focus a roadmap for Africa that is sustainable, inclusive, just, and managed by Africans for Africans. The forum invited experts, delegates, corpora

Photo Credits: Society & Diplomatic Review On September 21, 2022, UN Special Envoy on Climate Ambition and Solutions Michael R. Bloomberg launched Beyond Petrochemicals: People Over Pollution, a new campaign that aims to halt the rapid expansion of petrochemical and plastic pollution in the United States. Drawing on the success of Beyond Coal, supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies, and Bloomberg’s Beyond Carbon campaign, Beyond Petrochemicals will turbocharge existing effort

Photo Credits: Society & Diplomatic Review UN Special Envoy on Climate Ambition and Solutions and Race to Zero and Race to Resilience Global Ambassador Michael R. Bloomberg and the United Nations Climate Change High-Level Champions Nigel Topping and Dr. Mahmoud Mohieldin brought together over 25 leaders from around the world for the United Nations Climate Action: Race to Zero and Resilience Forum. Taking place during the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly, th

With the world spinning around at an ever-accelerating pace, one crisis after the next, we are fortunate to have people like French-American conductor Jean-Pierre Schmitt to step in to helps fellow musicians. By now, many people have already forgotten about the once-in-a-lifetime disaster that hit Beirut on August 4, 2020, catapulting Lebanon’s capital city into abysmal chaos. Two massive explosions of 2,750 tons of highly flammable substance negligently stored in the port ca