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WEF Deepens Global Governance Cooperation with China
January 24, 2017
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has signed a memorandum of understanding with China’s National Development and Reform Commission with the aim of increasing collaboration between WEF and China over the next 10 years, including on global economic governance, climate change initiatives, and China's regional "Belt and Road" infrastructure initiatives.
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WEF Signs Plastics Companies to Action Plan
January 24, 2017
The World Economic Forum has highlighted how international and nongovernmental organizations seek to make binding policy changes out of business pledges by signing more than 40 leaders from plastic companies to a New Plastics Economy initiative setting out a "global action plan" on expanding recycling practices.
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WEF Seeks Global Governance for "Inclusive" Growth
January 23, 2017
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has produced a report calling for new standards of measuring global economic performance, including by ranking economies on "carbon intensity," and proposing a "coordinated international initiative" on developing a socially "inclusive" framework of economic growth around the world.
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NGO Spotlights Roles of Repressive Regimes at UN
January 23, 2017
The nongovernmental organization UN Watch has published a 2017 update highlighting major human rights and other positions at the UN held by governments widely considered by experts to be human rights abusers, including Iran, China, Syria, Sudan, Cuba, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela.
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Op-ed Outlines UN's Plans for Israel, Palestine
January 23, 2017
An opinion piece by Uri Savir on news website Al-Monitor outlines the views of a UN source on how the organization's new Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will propose to develop a diplomatic plan for a two-state Israel-Palestine solution with or without the support of Israel and labels Israel's moves to withdraw from such efforts "fundamentally mistaken."