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Article: Transform Global Governance Through SDGs
January 30, 2018
An article from the nongovernmental organization Transnational Institute suggests that the actual achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is less important than using the process of working toward the SDGs as an opportunity to "lay foundations for alternative modes" of global governance based on "social and environmental justice."
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TPP Deal Advances Without US
January 29, 2018
Bloomberg reports that 11 members of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations, from which the US withdrew upon the arrival of the Trump Administration, have decided to proceed with a revised version of the agreement that will bind these countries in areas ranging from labor rights to culture to intellectual property.
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UN Chief Seeks to Increase Pressure for SDGs
January 29, 2018
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has outlined a broad set of reforms to the UN system designed to help fulfill the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for the year 2030, whose achievement he identified as a "fundamental human right," including by producing more effective teams to place pressure on specific countries to ramp up their action on the SDGs.
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UNESCO Develops Tool for "Sustainable" World Heritage Sites
January 29, 2018
The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO) World Heritage Centre has convened an expert group to help develop a global "tool" guiding managers of UNESCO World Heritage Sites to administer their responsibilities in line with a set of "sustainability indicators."
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World Bank Sets out Priorities in "Universal Health Coverage"
January 29, 2018
A press release from the World Bank congratulating a set of countries for their "pro-poor" policies aiming to provide universal health coverage emphasizes government schemes in these countries based on a redistribution of resources, such as through the creation of public insurance plans, over the lowering of prices through competition and deregulation.
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