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Officials Warn US to Respect UN Climate Deal Pledge
November 16, 2016
Reuters reports that UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and French President François Hollande, in separate remarks following the election of Donald Trump as President, have both called on the US to carry out its commitments under the "irreversible" and "unstoppable" UN climate accord that entered into force earlier this month.
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EU Pushes for Lower Global Bank Capital Requirements
November 16, 2016
Reuters reports that European regulators are warning that proposed global standards from the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, a global banking regulator, on how banks must calculate the capital they set aside to reduce the risk of taxpayer bailouts, would discourage European lending and favor US banks.
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UK Counters UN Disability Report
November 16, 2016
The BBC reports that British Work and Pensions Secretary Damian Green has criticized the findings of the UN Committee on the Rights of Disabled Persons, which claimed that UK government welfare and benefits cuts violated the country's rights obligations under a UN disability treaty, for using a "patronizing and offensive" view of disability.
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UN Pays Governments to Impose Tobacco Controls
November 16, 2016
The UN has announced that it is offering new funding for poor and "middle income" countries that agree to impose restrictions on tobacco under the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, as part of the international organization's comprehensive Sustainable Development Goals for the year 2030.
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UN Seeks Environmental "Duty of Care" Standards
November 16, 2016
As the UN International Law Commission reviews global standards to advance environmental preservation, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for countries to recognize a "shared duty of care toward the environment" to fulfill the UN's "sustainable development" agenda.
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