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NGO: UN Climate Failure Would Bolster Terrorist Recruitment
July 17, 2017
In a report commissioned by the German foreign office, Berlin think tank Adelphi considers how climate change has "exacerbated" ongoing conflicts in Africa and the Mideast and predicts that the failure of the UN's ambitious agenda on halting global warming would contribute to security risks by bolstering resource-focused terrorist recruiting strategies.
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"Emerging" Countries Seek Faster Climate Redistribution
July 14, 2017
Reuters reports that, in the lead-up to US President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the US from the 2015 Paris climate agreement, a group of "emerging nations" led by the largest global carbon emitter China called on the US and other industrialized countries to bear more of the brunt of funding climate-friendly technologies in developing countries.
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OSCE Pursues Climate Agenda in Kazakhstan
July 14, 2017
Demonstrating the expansion of the security-oriented Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) into the field of regional climate cooperation, the OSCE recently launched a series of workshops in Kazakhstan on "the application of green technology in rural areas."
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World Bank Uses "Open Data" Model to Pursue Energy Goals
July 14, 2017
The World Bank and its partners have launched an online platform called "ENERGYDATA.INFO" that makes publicly available a vast trove of data on energy systems around the world in pursuit of the achievement of ambitious sustainable energy targets embedded in the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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Study Seeks to Show Progress of UNESCO's "Global Citizenship" Initiative
July 14, 2017
Lionel Bellier of the consultancy GlobeScan reports that a recent international public opinion study commissioned by the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) purports to show that most people in the world now identify as "global citizens," as opposed to national citizens, giving a boost to the prospects of the UN's "sustainable development" agenda.
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