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UN Panel Calls for Broad Agricultural Reform to Protect Climate
August 08, 2019
The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has issued a report warning that humans must transform the global agricultural system, including by reducing the methane emitted by livestock, to limit the “irreversible” and catastrophic impacts of climate change.
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UN Rights Office Targets “Hate Speech” over Mass Shootings
August 07, 2019
Reuters reports that a spokesman for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has responded to the two mass shootings that occurred in El Paso and Dayton over the past weekend by voicing his office’s support for stricter gun laws and calling for the regulation of discriminatory “hate speech.”
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UN Agency Seeks Protection of “Climate Migrants”
August 07, 2019
Dina Ionesco of the UN International Organization for Migration highlights her mandate to study how global migration patterns will change as a result of the catastrophic impacts of climate change and to advocate for government measures providing legal protections to “climate migrants.”
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UN Expands Partnership for Promotion of Green Technology
August 07, 2019
The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change has signed an agreement with the International Renewable Energy Agency to expand their partnership in seeking to promote renewable-energy technology around the world to supplant fossil-fuel energy and help achieve the goals of the 2015 Paris climate accord.
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UN’s Palestinian Agency Faces Range of Employee Allegations
August 07, 2019
Fox News reports that the UN has launched an investigation into the leadership of the UN Relief and Works Agency, charged with supporting Palestinian refugees and from which the Trump Administration cut off funding last year, based on credible allegations of nepotism, retaliation, discrimination, and sexual misconduct.
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