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UN Calls for Agriculture-Focused "Climate Finance"
December 06, 2016
Officials from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Bank expressed concern at the recent UN climate summit in Marrakesh, Morocco, regarding the difficulty of reaching a deal with developed countries to redistribute more financing to agricultural systems in poor countries that will adapt to the future impacts of global warming.
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OSCE Trains Counter-terrorism Authorities on Rights
December 06, 2016
At a recent training course for Spanish law enforcement, intelligence, and military authorities in Madrid, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights emphasized a focus on the human rights of victims, potential offenders, and police officers in the performance of counter-terrorism operations.
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Global Energy Body: Climate Pledges Are Inadequate
December 05, 2016
The International Energy Agency has warned that national pledges made as part of the UN climate deal agreed in Paris last year are inadequate to prevent catastrophic levels of global warming and has called for ambitious actions by governments to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.
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Security Organization Promotes "Green Economy"
December 05, 2016
At the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe's Aarhus Centres Annual Meeting in Vienna, the OSCE gathered government officials and nongovernmental organizations to discuss how countries have pursued "resource efficiency, green economy and environmental protection" under the Aarhus Convention to promote the global "sustainability" agenda.
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OSCE Official: UK Anti-Terror Law Threatens Media
December 05, 2016
OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović has warned that the recently approved UK Investigatory Powers Bill threatens media freedom by permitting government surveillance of journalists and requiring internet service providers to retain connection data for use by law enforcement.
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