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UN Maintains Call for "Urgent" Climate Action
March 27, 2017
In a recent address to an event at the UN General Assembly on global warming, UN Secretary-General António Guterres dismissed the legitimacy of any debate over the need for "urgent and decisive" action to combat climate change and called on governments to implement their commitments to the UN climate deal agreed in Paris in 2015.
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UN Report: Nationalism, Inequality Prevent Development
March 27, 2017
The most recent Human Development Report from the UN Development Programme identifies "narrow self-identities," including nationalism, and economic inequality as barriers to "peaceful, just, and sustainable development."
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UN Panel: Increased Efficiency Will Pay for Climate Action
March 27, 2017
Citing research from its International Resource Panel, the UN Environment Programme has asserted that the best way for governments to pay the trillions of dollars necessary to implement the UN's climate change agenda is through "smarter and more efficient use of the world’s natural resources."
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UNESCO Lab Promotes "Equity-Weighted Policies"
March 27, 2017
A recent UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) press release on its Inclusive Policy Lab demonstrates how the UN agency is seeking to push national governments to implement "inclusive and equity-weighted policies" as part of the UN's agendas on "sustainable development" and economic rights.
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UNESCO Promotes "Citizenship Education" at Dubai Forum
March 24, 2017
UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova participated in various events at the recent Global Education & Skills Forum in Dubai to promote her organization's "Global Citizenship Education" agenda, which targets young people with curricula on the UN Sustainable Development Goals and how to expand "understanding between cultures."
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