United Nations

World Bank Boosts Climate Funding Levels

October 16, 2015

The World Bank Group has announced that it is seeking to boost its funding for climate change-related projects to $29 billion annually by 2020, raising its contributions to such efforts from 21 percent to 28 percent of its total funding.
UN Official Warns UK on Bill of Rights Move

October 16, 2015

Prior to the UK's releasing its plan for replacing its Human Rights Act with a British Bill of Rights, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein has warned such a move would be "damaging for victims and human rights protection."
UN Calls for Global Governance of "Sustainable" Finance

October 14, 2015

A report from the UN Environment Programme calls on governments to enact measures, such as disclosure requirements, to push their finance industries to support the UN's "sustainable development" agenda and seeks a "global governance structure" that focuses on sustainability issues.
UN Report Links Eating Beef with Climate Harm

October 14, 2015

A new study from the UN Environment Programme labels beef as a "climate harmful meat" due to greenhouse gas emissions related to raising cattle and the production of the meat.
UN Calls for Teacher Participation in Sustainability Network

October 09, 2015

The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization ("UNESCO") and two education organizations have called for teachers to become part of a network pushing education on the UN's sustainable development goals, climate change, and "global citizenship," and have released a "teacher advocacy toolkit" to further these purposes.
World Bank Calls for Measures Against Income Inequality

October 08, 2015

In recent remarks, World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim rejected a sole focus on economic growth to help low-income people and instead called for measures from "ending regressive fossil fuel subsidies" to collecting taxes more fairly to reduce income inequality.
Jacoby: US Should Abstain from Voting at UN

October 08, 2015

Jeff Jacoby of The Boston Globe writes that the US should avoid lending legitimacy to UN resolutions, which often counter the ideals of democracy and civil and political human rights, by abstaining from voting on all such resolutions at the UN General Assembly.
Academic: Countries Should Have Framed SDGs as Human Rights

October 08, 2015

Professor Ken Conca of American University writes that countries lost an opportunity in the adoption of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ("SDGs"), a set of developmental and environmental targets to be achieved by the year 2030, by failing to frame the SDGs as human rights.
US Implicates Former UNGA President in Corruption Scheme

October 07, 2015

In a continuing pattern of corruption among officials of the UN and other international organizations, US prosecutors in Manhattan have arrested former UN General Assembly ("UNGA") President John Ashe and accused him of accepting bribes from a Chinese real estate developer in return for investment opportunities in Ashe's home country, Antigua.
UN Pushes for Sustainability Education in Schools

October 07, 2015

The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization ("UNESCO") has announced that it is supporting a global project in which it encourages education ministers around the world to engage students on the recently adopted UN Sustainable Development Goals and on climate change.