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Nigeria Looks to "Green Bonds" for Climate Finance
February 24, 2017
At a recent workshop on climate finance in Nigeria at which a World Bank official predicted the country would need $140 billion to achieve greenhouse gas commitments it made as part of the UN's Paris climate deal, Nigerian environment minister Ibrahim Usman Jibril revealed his government's plans to introduce "green bonds" to fund the country's climate pledge.
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UN Meeting Seeks "Women's Empowerment" Policies
February 24, 2017
In consultations on the agenda of the 61st session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women, Latin American and Caribbean government officials agreed to a "Declaration of Panama" committing them to "women's economic empowerment," including raising the minimum wage and establishing a mechanism monitoring the enforcement of equal pay measures.
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NGO: EU Must Close All Coal Plants by 2030
February 23, 2017
Demonstrating nongovernmental organizations' use of the UN climate deal agreed in Paris in 2015 as a tool to push ambitious global action reducing greenhouse gas emissions, EurActiv reports that a study from climate policy institute Climate Analytics says the EU must close all of its coal-fired power plants by 2030 to meet its promises under the deal.
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Chinese Body Joins WEF Environment Initiative
February 23, 2017
As part of the World Economic Forum's (WEF) global Platform for Accelerating the Circular Economy, WEF and an advisory body to the Chinese government have signed a memorandum of understanding on promoting the "circular economy" and resource efficiency in China with the aim of fulfilling the global "sustainable development" agenda.
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Analysis Takes on Criticism of Mexico City Policy
February 23, 2017
Stefano Gennarini of C-Fam writes that the criticism by UN officials and activists of the human rights effects of the Trump Administration's withdrawal of abortion funding from foreign countries under the "Mexico City Policy" belies the fact that there is no binding provision of a UN treaty recognizing a right to abortion or to public provision of family planning methods.
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