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ISO Pushes for Global Standards to Achieve SDGs
July 18, 2017
Elizabeth Gasiorowski-Denis of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) asserts that global standards created by ISO and other groups to harmonize the international regulation of business are necessary to achieve the UN's comprehensive Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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UNESCO Report Highlights Need for Improving Refugee Education
July 18, 2017
The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has issued guidance on how countries hosting refugees must respect the global legal "right to education" in order to achieve the UN's "sustainable development" targets related to learning.
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UN Chief Shows Prioritization of "Sustainability" Agenda
July 18, 2017
In a report presented to the UN Economic and Social Council, UN Secretary General António Guterres proposes an ambitious "repositioning" of the UN development system to improve the chances of achieving the organization's comprehensive social and economic agenda contained in the Sustainable Development Goals.
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"Vulnerable" Nations Push G20 on Halt to Fossil Fuel Funding
July 17, 2017
Environmental news website Climate Home reports that the finance ministers of the Climate Vulnerable Forum, a political grouping of 49 countries that consider themselves the most vulnerable in the world to global warming, have called on the G20 to set a strict date - preferably by the year 2020 - by which they will phase out all fossil fuel subsidies.
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World Bank Retains Commitment to "Green" Finance
July 17, 2017
At a news conference in April, World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim stated that his organization would continue funding "green energy" and other projects designed to limit the impacts of global warming in spite of the Trump Administration's apparent policy shifts away from global climate cooperation.
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