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World Bank Launches $300-Million Energy-Efficiency Initiative in India
August 30, 2018
Highlighting the World Bank’s embrace of the UN’s “sustainable development” and climate change agendas, the development institution has announced its support of a $300-million India Energy Efficiency Scale-Up Program to encourage “energy saving measures in residential and public sectors” with the aim of reducing the country’s greenhouse gas emissions.
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NGOs Seek Binding Environmental Instrument for Americas
August 30, 2018
An open letter from nongovernmental organizations including Amnesty International calls on countries in Latin America and the Caribbean to sign on to a binding regional agreement setting transnational standards linking environmental protection and human rights, including by providing for “access to justice in environmental matters.”
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Paper: Reform Global Governance to Ease Tech Transfer to China
August 30, 2018
Anton Malkin of the Centre for International Governance Innovation calls for the reform of the global trade governance system to accommodate the challenges faced by “developing and middle-income economies,” as illustrated by China’s “Made in China 2025” industrial policy, in acquiring foreign-owned technology and expertise.
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Businesses Pledge “Sustainable” Textile Supply Chains
August 30, 2018
As part of growing pressure on businesses to perform human rights due diligence, the Partnership for Sustainable Textiles, a coalition of companies, NGOs, and the German government, has announced the release by 116 of its members of roadmaps toward “sustainable” supply chains, as reviewed and approved by “external experts.”
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UN Agent: Renewed US Sanctions on Iran Violate Rights
August 29, 2018
UN Special Rapporteur Idriss Jazairy has criticized as “illegitimate” and an “injustice” the re-imposition by the US of sanctions on Iran, citing the impacts of the unilateral decision on broadly defined economic and social human rights of Iran’s citizens.
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