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Businesses Pledge Carbon "Pricing" at Coalition Meeting
August 03, 2017
At a recent High Level Assembly of the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition convened by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), business leaders made pledges to help fulfill the global agenda on combating climate change by factoring into their operations and investments the perceived cost of greenhouse gas emissions.
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UN Forestry Advice Aids SDG Alignment
August 03, 2017
New guidelines from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization press national governments to develop a "strong mechanism" for monitoring their forest resources to fight global warming and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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WHO Promotes Breastfeeding as Key to SDGs
August 03, 2017
The World Health Organization (WHO) is calling on national governments to increase investment in breastfeeding promotion programs in part to reach the targets under the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) related to nutrition, disease prevention, and cognitive development.
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UN Event Touts Youth, Elderly Role in SDGs
August 03, 2017
The UN recently held an event highlighting the universal nature of its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by pushing for "solidarity across generations" in involving people of all ages in implementing the comprehensive social and environmental agenda.
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Report Spotlights UN Inability to Curb Sex Abuse
August 02, 2017
George Russell writes that a report from the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services reveals, years after reports of child sex abuse in the country rocked the UN system, the continued inability of the UN peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic to effectively monitor, record, or investigate allegations of sexual abuse by its peacekeepers.
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