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NGOs Use Climate Crisis to Promote Education for Sustainable Development
October 15, 2019
Citing a climate crisis, environmental activists in Canada are convincing school officials to weave education for sustainable development ("ESD") into the curriculum, with 2,000 schools across Ontario securing the "EcoSchools" designation.
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HRW Communicates with UNOHCHR on Right of Children to a Healthy Environment
October 08, 2019
Human Rights Watch has submitted a report on the right of children to a healthy environment to the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
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WWF Uses Doctored Photo to Plant Middle School Climate Change Meme
October 08, 2019
WWF Finland has apologized for using as part of an anti-climate change fundraising campaign aimed at middle school students a retouched photo of a polar bear and cub standing on a tiny ice flow, adrift in an ocean, when, in fact, in the original photo, the polar bears are set against an icy landscape with no ocean in sight.
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Environmental Justice Foundation Urges Adoption of Global Ocean Treaty
October 02, 2019
Citing the devastating threats to ocean life detailed in a recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Steve Trent, Executive Director of the Environmental Justice Foundation, urges the adoption of the UN Global Ocean Treaty.
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Civil Society Organizations Object to UN-WEF Partnership
September 27, 2019
In a recent letter to UN Secretary-General Guterres, hundreds of civil society organizations expressed their displeasure over a new partnership framework between the United Nations and the World Economic Forum, which they view as a transformational event resulting in the corporate capture of the UN.
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