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UN Climate Talks Produce “Rulebook” on Climate Action
December 18, 2018
The New York Times reports that countries at a UN summit in Poland agreed a common rulebook on measuring and reporting their contributions to global greenhouse gas emissions but failed to find consensus on standardizing “carbon markets” and redistributing “climate aid” from wealthy to poor countries.
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US Outlines “Balanced Approach” to Climate Action at UN Summit
December 18, 2018
The US State Department published a statement following the recent UN climate summit in Poland setting out the current Administration’s “balanced approach to economic growth, energy security, and environmental protection” and a pledge not to “allow climate agreements to be used as a vehicle to redistribute wealth.”
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Scientists Warn of Slow Progress on UN Biodiversity Treaty
December 18, 2018
A scientific team led by the California Academy of Sciences has published an essay warning that global progress on the UN Convention for Biological Diversity is not fast enough to achieve the environmental targets of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and prevent a “biodiversity crisis.”
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Experts Seek Return to Original Meaning of UDHR
December 18, 2018
Elyssa Koren and Paul Coleman of religious freedom nonprofit ADF International call for a return to the “original understanding” of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and its protection of a set of “core rights” while respecting the sovereign authority of countries to “fight out issues of moral concern” in their internal systems.
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NGOs Pressure UN Rights Chief on Israeli Settlements Database
December 18, 2018
A group of nongovernmental organizations has published a letter calling on UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet to follow through on plans to create an online database of businesses operating in Israeli settlements for the purpose of NGO-organized boycotts of and pressure on such companies.
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