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UN Body Seeks Chinese Infrastructure Compliance with SDGs
July 20, 2017
As part of the UN's prioritization of obtaining government and private sector support for its comprehensive Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the UN Economic and Social Council recently held a workshop in New York in which it pressed Chinese officials to explain how their massive infrastructure project the Belt and Road Initiative will contribute to the SDGs.
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NGOs, UN Partner to Benchmark SDG Contributions
July 19, 2017
The WWF project Gold Standard and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change are launching a "Gold Standard for the Global Goals" that will measure contributions from the public and private sectors toward the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and pressure businesses to help fulfill the UN's social and environmental agenda.
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EBRD Signs Deal with UN Fund for Climate Finance
July 19, 2017
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has signed an agreement with the UN's Green Climate Fund to expand public and private finance for projects across the Mediterranean, Central Asian, and Southeastern European regions aiming to lower carbon emissions and limit the impacts of global warming.
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World Bank Chief Seeks Revamped Climate Finance
July 19, 2017
At the institution's spring meetings, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim warned of the failure of the Green Climate Fund to effectively combat the impacts of climate change and called for global leaders to develop a new system to funnel public and private finance to climate-friendly projects.
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Researcher Calls for Local-Focused Climate Redistribution
July 19, 2017
Marek Soanes of the International Institute for Environment and Development writes that the Green Climate Fund, the UN mechanism that directs international development funding toward projects seeking to limit global warming, should be more focused on redistributing funding directly to local authorities in the world's least-developed countries.
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