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UN Launches Policy Guidance Body for Wetlands
August 04, 2017
The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) recently announced the establishment of a "Global Blue Carbon Data Network" consisting of a network of regional centers created to share data on carbon emissions in wetland areas and to support integrating "blue carbon" policy into "local to national to international ocean and climate policy."
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UN Official Enlists Cities in Climate Agenda
August 04, 2017
Reuters reports that Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Patricia Espinosa, citing the catastrophic future impacts of global warming on urban areas, has called on cities to be the main drivers of the UN's climate and "sustainable development" agendas.
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NATO Official Warns of Climate as Security Threat
August 03, 2017
The Independent reports that, in the lead-up to US President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the US from the UN's Paris climate agreement, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) supreme allied commander for transformation General Denis Mercier warned that the US's departure from the deal would pose a "global security threat."
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OSCE Supports "Human Rights Education" in Tajikistan
August 03, 2017
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) recently supported a training course in Tajikistan in which "human rights trainers" from Belarus taught civil society activists how to teach school children about the global human rights agenda.
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OSCE Supports "Environmental Awareness" Textbook
August 03, 2017
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) has demonstrated its continuing focus on promoting the global environmentalist movement by supporting the publication of a textbook in Kazakhstan seeking to enhance "environmental awareness" among students.
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