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Groups Use Test to Promote "Sustainability Literacy"
September 15, 2017
The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) reports that 603 universities, businesses, and other organizations from 57 countries are now using a "Sustainability Literacy Test" to gauge and report on the level of understanding among their students and employees of the UN's "sustainable development" agenda.
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UNESCO Seeks "Sustainability" Education in South Africa
September 15, 2017
In June, the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) hosted in South Africa the third of its series of four symposia on the future of the UN agency's global agenda on "education for sustainable development" and how it will help achieve the UN's ambitious Sustainable Development Goals.
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NGO Creates Tool on Harms Caused by Hydropower
September 15, 2017
Highlighting the complications faced by energy companies seeking to comply with the global climate change agenda by shifting from fossil fuel projects to hydro-electric power, a nongovernmental organization has produced an online "Hydrocalculator" tool assessing the social and environmental costs of large hydropower projects around the world.
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NGO Pushes for “Environmental Justice” in Global South
September 14, 2017
The Colombian nongovernmental organization Dejusticia has released a compilation of stories on environmental controversies in the Global South as part of its effort to help environmental activists more effectively influence global public opinion on business and human rights through storytelling.
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NGO Calls for UN Body to Oversee Corporate Taxes
September 14, 2017
The Association for Women's Rights in Development has released a policy brief on global corporate tax evasion and avoidance, arguing that its negative effects on women’s rights warrant the creation of a “United Nations intergovernmental tax body” to ensure corporate compliance with tax laws.
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