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Brussels Summit Aims for “Robust” Climate Action
July 24, 2018
The EU, Canada, and China recently convened a Ministerial on Climate Action in Brussels at which government participants rejected the renegotiation of the UN’s Paris climate deal and committed to creating “comprehensive” and “robust” implementation guidance for the agreement at an upcoming meeting in Katowice, Poland.
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UN Lab Provides “Big Data” on Biodiversity
July 24, 2018
UN agencies and the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity have launched the UN Biodiversity Lab as an “interactive mapping platform” providing geospatial data to policymakers, promote efforts to preserve biodiversity across the globe, and eventually to provide “access to big data” on the UN’s sustainable development agenda.
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OSCE Declaration Focuses on Security, Rights, Climate Agenda
July 24, 2018
Following its recent meeting in Berlin, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly adopted a declaration calling on lawmakers in OSCE member states to fully implement their commitments to international law, global human rights principles, and the effort to combat climate change.
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World Bank Sets out Catastrophic Climate Scenario for India
July 24, 2018
Demonstrating its ongoing focus on attempting to determine the future, specific impacts of global warming as part of its promotion of the UN’s Paris climate deal, the World Bank has published a report describing how climate change will drastically lower living standards and increase poverty and inequality in India.
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NGOs Push for Japanese Firms' Divestment from Coal
July 24, 2018
Environmental activist groups have warned they will closely monitor Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group’s actions following its President’s statement on reconsidering the company’s support of coal-fired power plants, stating that the only viable way forward for the company is a policy that “ceases all new lending to coal fired power generation and coal extraction.”
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