(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) He was underscoring the role that national scientific advice would play in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 but he could also have been describing his approach to science diplomacy. The UNESCO Science Report (2015) relates how, at the climate summit in Copenhagen (Denmark) in 2009, New Zealand proposed creating a Global Research Alliance to Reduce Agricultural Greenhouse Gases. As the world's highest emitter of methane per capita, owing to its large population of livestock, New Zealand was particularly keen to promote a science-based international dialogue at the nexus between food security...
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