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UNESCO Members Adopt Ethical Principles on Climate
December 19, 2017
At a recent session of the organization's General Conference, member states of the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) adopted a "Declaration of Ethical Principles in Relation to Climate Change" to reframe global policy responses to climate change as an issue of morality.
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UN Agency Seeks More Data on Climate "Adaptation"
December 19, 2017
In November, the UN Environment Programme released an assessment finding that the world must develop better ways to assess progress on achieving the "global goal on adaptation" to the impacts of climate change under the UN's Paris climate accord to hold national leaders to account for their climate pledges under the deal.
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Brookings, UNESCO Seek to Measure GCE Progress
December 19, 2017
As part of their Global Citizenship Education (GCE) Working Group project, the Brookings Institution and the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) recently published a toolkit on how to measure global progress toward implementing GCE, which teaches children how to be "agents of long-term, positive changes in their societies."
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UN Reserves Funds for Legal Action Against Israel
December 19, 2017
According to the nongovernmental organization UN Watch, the UN has set aside $1.3 billion across 16 UN agencies from 2018 to 2022 to provide advice and "technical capacity" to Palestinian officials on the use of “international accountability mechanisms” to hold Israel responsibility for violations of international law.
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Pence: US Will Avoid UN in Mideast Relief Efforts
December 18, 2017
Penny Starr reports that US Vice President Mike Pence has announced a shift in US policy under which the US State Department will avoid using UN structures to distribute humanitarian relief to persecuted religious minorities in the Middle East.
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