United Nations

UN Illustrates Reach of SDGs on Traffic Accidents

December 08, 2016

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon recently highlighted the transformation of the international organization's development agenda from the poverty focus of the previous Millennium Development Goals to the comprehensive Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with a call for governments to ramp up action to prevent deaths from traffic accidents under SDG Target 3.6.
Abrams Criticizes UN Resolutions on Israel

December 07, 2016

Elliott Abrams of the Council on Foreign Relations describes how six anti-Israel resolutions recently passed by the UN General Assembly, including a call for Israeli withdrawal from the "Syrian Golan" in favor of a likely Syrian takeover of the region, demonstrate that the UN has become a "theater of the absurd."
UN Launches Global Governance Initiative for Peatlands

December 07, 2016

At the recent climate summit in Marrakesh, Morocco, the UN Environment Programme launched a Global Peatlands Initiative to combat global warming by promoting the "conservation, restoration, and sustainable management" of peatlands in countries around the world.
UN Officials Push for "Climate Finance" at Summit

December 07, 2016

In statements to the UN climate summit in Marrakesh, Morocco, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and World Bank President Jim Yong Kim called for a "rapid" ramp-up in contributions to "climate finance" aimed to combat global warming and reiterated plans to place pressure on the financial sector to make "climate smart investments."
MENA Countries Set out "Climate Finance" Project Plans

December 07, 2016

At the recent UN climate summit in Marrakesh, Morocco, representatives from Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) countries described their pledges to combat climate change by reducing their greenhouse gas emissions, much of which they say they will accomplish through global "climate finance" programs supported by the World Bank.
UN Promotes "Sustainability" Through Physical Education

December 07, 2016

The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) describes how its Quality Physical Education program advances the UN's comprehensive "sustainable development" agenda in schools around the world by promoting "peace, inclusion and equitable development" among children.
UN Official Supports "Sustainability" Curricula Efforts

December 07, 2016

At a recent meeting with UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Director-General Irina Bokova, UN General Assembly President Peter Thomson applauded UNESCO's efforts in "mobilizing the global education system of the world" to raise public awareness of the UN's comprehensive "sustainable development" agenda.
UNESCO Signs Countries to Citizenship Education Agenda

December 07, 2016

Two groups operating under the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) convened officials from Uganda, Colombia, Mongolia, and Cambodia for a workshop on how to advance UNESCO's Global Citizenship Education project promoting the teaching of "sustainable development" and human rights in the classroom.
UNESCO Pushes Climate Curricula at UN Summit

December 07, 2016

The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) hosted side events and launched publications at the recent UN climate summit in Marrakesh, Morocco, calling on countries to include climate change education and "Education for Sustainable Development" in their national curricula to encourage students to pursue more "sustainable" lifestyles.
UN Summit Concludes with Pledge of Climate "Rulebook"

December 06, 2016

The recent UN climate change summit in Marrakesh, Morocco, ended with governments promising to support the development of a global "rulebook" by 2018 to guide their policies in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and with nongovernmental organizations warning of insufficient redistribution of "climate finance" to poor countries.