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New Resolution Promoted Global Universal Health Coverage
October 23, 2019
In an action supported by the World Health Organization, The global Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) has adopted a Resolution on achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by 2030, which calls on parliaments and parliamentarians to “take all possible measures to achieve UHC," and stresses the need for robust legal frameworks and the need to allocate adequate resources.
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UN Convenes Global Investors for Sustainable Development
October 23, 2019
To address what UN Secretary-General António Guterres describes as "widening inequality, increased devastation from conflicts and disasters and a rapidly warming Earth," Global Investors for Sustainable Development, which includes thirty influential leaders from the corporate world, will work together over the next two years in a bid to free up trillions of dollars from the private sector to finance the Sustainable Development Goals.
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International Organizations Press for Climate Change Financial Disclosures
October 23, 2019
Since 2017, the United Nations Environment Finance Initiative has been encouraging businesses to evaluate and disclose, as part of their financial filing preparation and reporting processes, the material climate-related risks and opportunities that are most pertinent to their business activities, including its 2019 Changing Course report promoting standardization of climate risk assessment methodologies.
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UNESCO Institutes Promotes Global Citizenship for Human Flourishing
October 16, 2019
Experts from the UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development explain why education needs to be re-purposed and redesigned to build not just human capital for economic growth but to create global citizens for human flourishing.
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UNDP Promotes Global Compact for Migration
October 16, 2019
The United Nations Development Program has published a new paper on the Global Compact for Migration.
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