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UN Event Promotes Women’s "Economic Empowerment"
March 22, 2017
Participants at a UN Asia-Pacific regional policy dialogue called for "decisive measures" to fight gender inequality in the economy and ensure the “economic empowerment” of women, although the precise meaning of "empowerment" and the role of national governments in these reforms remain unclear.
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Asian, African Countries Eye "Green Bond" Initiatives
March 21, 2017
Reuters reports that Asian and African governments, under pressure from environmental activists pushing action on the global climate change agenda, are considering proposals to follow the lead of countries like France and Poland that have set up "green bond" markets to pull investments into renewable energy projects.
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World Bank Pushes Private Funding of SDGs
March 21, 2017
Mahmoud Mohieldin and Svetlana Klimenko of the World Bank Group write that, given the vast level of resources needed to achieve the UN's comprehensive Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), businesses must accept a "broader, more integrated role" in funding the SDGs than they took on in previous attempts to implement the UN's social and environmental agenda.
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UN Agents Seek Global Pesticide Ban
March 21, 2017
A group of UN human rights mandate holders has issued a statement calling for the development of a "comprehensive new global treaty" phasing out the use of "dangerous pesticides" in agriculture and forcing a move toward "sustainable" agricultural practices to protect the "human rights" to health and a clean environment.
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OECD: Estonia Must Reduce Oil Shale Reliance
March 21, 2017
In its first "Environmental Performance Review" of Estonia, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) asserts that reducing the country's dependence on oil shale for energy production and moving toward "green growth" is the government's "number one economic, environmental and social challenge."
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