Engagement Specialist at the UN Environment Programme | European & International Affairs | my own views
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Why I don’t travel around the UK as much as I do around Europe, even though getting to Europe is a bit of a pain (thanks, idiots in England):
15 day continuous Interrail 1st Class pass (Adult): €605 (£500)
14 day continuous UK All Line Rail Rover, 1st class (adult): £1387 (€1677)
The Interrail pass includes two “own country” days to get me to the continent, and there is a supplement of €34 each way to use the Eurostar, but it covers almost all of Europe. The All Line Rail Rover covers the UK.
A blast from the past and wonderful to be back at the European Parliament for an inspiring gathering of youth leaders.
With all the focus on the challenges in the world it's important to remember that there is so much good in this world with people working every day to make a positive difference.
Honoured to be working again at the United Nations serving as a Consultant at the UN Environment Programme in Paris.
Over the coming months, I will be working to improve knowledge exchange and help communicate ideas and action towards SDG 12 - Sustainable Consumption and Production.
Working at the UN really is the stuff of dreams and I am so incredibly fortunate to have the opportunity to do so twice now, I look forward to making the most of it!
Wishing everyone a wonderful Hogmanay (New Years Eve in 🏴) and and Happy New Year.
As with any year it features highs and lows and many of us have faced some of the lows in the difficult times facing our society, but this moment is unique in that it offers pause for reflection and encourages us to each think how we can improve ourselves and the world around us in the year ahead. Let's move into this new year in that spirit of renewal and seek to answer that call for change.
Happy New Year!
I love this!
Liam Gallagher as a tram announcer in Manchester during the Beyond the Music festival.
RT @Tsihanouskaya
15 years of prison.
This is how the regime “rewarded” my work for democratic changes in Belarus.
But today I don't think about my own sentence. I think about thousands of innocents, detained & sentenced to real prison terms.
I won't stop until each of them is released.
RT @calummackichan
"I don't think our children and grandchildren will forgive us if we don't have pandemic agreement which helps to address the mistakes we have made during this one"
As the longest serving First Minister of "?#Scotland (to date) #NicolaSturgeon has led the nation at a period of major change, through Brexit, COVID, and the Queen's passing in Scotland to name but a few.
I believe we may also see a similar unique role as a 'Former First Minister'.
It's long been rumoured that she would seek to work internationally, her international profile and experience with the UN certainly sees her well placed to do so. It would be quite a remarkable next step is so.
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