United Nations

UN Official Insists Climate Deal Is "Legally Binding"

December 30, 2015

In an interview during the UN climate-change negotiations in Paris, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Christiana Figueres argued that any deal that would come out of the Paris talks would have "several different natures of legal bindingness" on countries around the world.
World Bank Works with Space Agency on Sustainability

December 29, 2015

The UN's World Bank has launched a new project with the European Space Agency "to reduce poverty, monitor environmental changes, and stimulate economic growth" by pursuing the UN's sustainability agenda through observation of the Earth.
Development Banks Pledge Funding for Green Transport

December 29, 2015

As part of its activity at the recent UN climate talks in Paris, the World Bank convened seven other multilateral development banks to announce that they would ramp up financing of transportation projects that would counter and limit the effects of climate change.
Groves: US Congress Will Oppose UN Climate Funding

December 29, 2015

Steven Groves of the Heritage Foundation writes that the US Congress will not approve President Barack Obama's massive financing pledge to the UN's "Green Climate Fund" to help poorer countries limit the effects of global warming unless the President seeks congressional approval of the Paris climate deal.
UN Announces 2016 Follow-up to Climate Conference

December 28, 2015

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has announced that a broad group of organizations will host a "Climate Action 2016" conference in Washington, DC, to survey actions on pledges made in the recent Paris UN climate deal and to pressure countries to do more to counter global warming.
UN Launches Host of Initiatives to Counter Global Warming

December 28, 2015

During the recent UN climate talks in Paris, the international organization and its agencies launched several initiatives aimed at countering climate change or containing its effects, including an effort to aid people who are at risk due to the catastrophic weather effects of global warming and "communiqué" that aims to reduce fossil-fuel subsidies.
UN Guidance Criticizes "Politicization" of Refugee Crisis

December 22, 2015

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees ("UNHCR") has issued a report guiding countries how to maintain security while admitting large flows of refugees and calling for governments to "de-dramatize" and "de-politicize" such security challenges in order to prevent what one UNHCR official warned was growing "xenophobia and vilification" directed toward refugees.
UN Warns of Climate-Caused Food Disasters

December 22, 2015

The UN Food and Agricultural Organization ("FAO") has warned that climate change is causing a number of natural catastrophes that are posing a threat to the food supply in developing countries and calls for increased investments in efforts to limit global warming to increase food security.
World Bank Pursues African Climate Strategy to Defeat Poverty

December 22, 2015

Blaming past greenhouse gas emissions for limiting anti-poverty efforts in Africa, the World Bank Group has issued a strategy for providing billions of dollars in funding for "climate-resilient" and "low-carbon" development to reduce poverty on the continent.
World Bank Continues Pressure for Carbon Tax

December 22, 2015

During the recent UN climate talks in Paris, the World Bank Group pressured governments to tax the emission of carbon in order to limit global warming, launching a Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition among leaders of various governments and sectors and announcing a $500 million initiative to cut greenhouse gases and set up carbon taxes in developing countries.