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Countries Adopt UN "Sustainable Transport" Policy
December 13, 2016
Government officials meeting at a UN summit in Turkmenistan adopted an "Ashgabat Statement" pledging to build more "sustainable" and climate-friendly transportation systems, as UN representatives pushed for the mobilization of trillions of dollars in investments for such sustainable transport.
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UN Pushes SDGs with Outer Space Declaration
December 13, 2016
Following the recent UN High Level Forum on Space as a Driver for Socio-economic Sustainable Development, participating governments and other attendees adopted a Dubai Declaration that pushes for governments to align their policies on outer space with the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.
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NGO Creates Resource Bank on "Sustainability" Education
December 13, 2016
The nongovernmental organization World Organization for Early Childhood Education has produced a UNESCO Early Childhood Resource Bank to provide information about how to teach children, beginning before they enter school, about the importance of the UN's sustainable development agenda.
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UNESCO Body Introduces Oceans "Roadmap"
December 13, 2016
At a side event during the recent UN climate summit in Marrakesh, Morocco, UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission's presented its Strategic Action Roadmap on Oceans and Climate for the next five years, in part to support the provision of "climate finance" to ocean projects to reduce the impacts of global warming.
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Local Governments Seek Control over "Climate Finance"
December 12, 2016
Megan Rowling reports that local communities in Africa are pushing for greater control over how to disburse development funding provided by "rich" countries, including through the UN's $10 billion "Green Climate Fund," to projects whose purpose is to limit the impacts of global warming.
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