Hello from Yifan, your #techasia host this week. I’m sending this newsletter after a flight to New York, where I’ll be participating in a Climate Economics Journalism Fellowship hosted by New York University.
The fellowship will take place as world leaders gather in the city to discuss the most urgent global issues at the annual United Nations General Assembly. Leaders of the UN’s 193 member states will begin general debate on Tuesday of next week, in which delegates from each country will address the international community.
The escalating climate crisis has been a key topic brought up by world leaders in their addresses in recent years and is expected to continue to headline this year’s assembly.