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UN Illustrates Reach of SDGs on Traffic Accidents
December 08, 2016
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon recently highlighted the transformation of the international organization's development agenda from the poverty focus of the previous Millennium Development Goals to the comprehensive Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with a call for governments to ramp up action to prevent deaths from traffic accidents under SDG Target 3.6.
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Abrams Criticizes UN Resolutions on Israel
December 07, 2016
Elliott Abrams of the Council on Foreign Relations describes how six anti-Israel resolutions recently passed by the UN General Assembly, including a call for Israeli withdrawal from the "Syrian Golan" in favor of a likely Syrian takeover of the region, demonstrate that the UN has become a "theater of the absurd."
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UN Launches Global Governance Initiative for Peatlands
December 07, 2016
At the recent climate summit in Marrakesh, Morocco, the UN Environment Programme launched a Global Peatlands Initiative to combat global warming by promoting the "conservation, restoration, and sustainable management" of peatlands in countries around the world.
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UN Officials Push for "Climate Finance" at Summit
December 07, 2016
In statements to the UN climate summit in Marrakesh, Morocco, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and World Bank President Jim Yong Kim called for a "rapid" ramp-up in contributions to "climate finance" aimed to combat global warming and reiterated plans to place pressure on the financial sector to make "climate smart investments."
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MENA Countries Set out "Climate Finance" Project Plans
December 07, 2016
At the recent UN climate summit in Marrakesh, Morocco, representatives from Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) countries described their pledges to combat climate change by reducing their greenhouse gas emissions, much of which they say they will accomplish through global "climate finance" programs supported by the World Bank.
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