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World Bank Pushes African Countries on Climate
September 07, 2016
At a conference on "ocean economies and climate change" in Mauritius, the World Bank and governments from African coastal and island countries published a communiqué in which the countries pledged to consider the UN's climate agenda and perform impact assessments when developing ocean and coastal areas.
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Report: UN Body Accredits Anti-Israel NGOs
September 01, 2016
A report from watchdog organizations Human Rights Voices and the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust finds numerous instances in which nongovernmental organizations accredited by the UN Economic and Social Council's NGO Committee have issued false and misleading material with the purpose of inciting hatred and violence against Israel.
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Reports Find Unsanitary UN Peacekeeping Practices
August 31, 2016
George Russell writes that, as the latest wave of a cholera epidemic generally attributed to sanitation practices at a UN peacekeeper camp strikes Haiti, internal UN reports have spotlighted numerous examples of unsanitary practices in UN peacekeeping operations that may have contaminated water in conflict zones around the world.
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UN Seeks Massive Infusion of Sustainability Funding
August 31, 2016
President-elect of the UN General Assembly, Peter Thomson, called on governments to "be creative in mobilizing finance," in the amount of $5 to $7 trillion per year, toward fulfilling the UN's comprehensive Sustainable Development Goals and transforming the global financial system to promote the organization's social and environmental agenda.
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Key Details Remain Unresolved in UN Climate Deal
August 31, 2016
As the UN climate deal agreed in Paris last year nears the threshold of signatures required to enter into force, an article on the website Climate Home makes clear that several key details of the agreement, including how the review mechanism of national climate plans will work and how much support poor countries will receive to counter global warming, must still be negotiated.
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