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UN Agents Warn of Economic Focus in "Urban Agenda"
July 13, 2016
A group of UN special rapporteurs and independent experts has warned that the focus of the UN's "New Urban Agenda," a development agenda for cities around the world, neglects economic and social human rights in favor of "unrestrained urban economic growth."
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UN Launches Ad Initiative Publicizing SDGs
July 12, 2016
At a recent International Festival of Creativity in Cannes, France, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on advertising and communications professionals to partner with the UN to publicize the UN Sustainable Development Goals, a comprehensive set of development and environmental targets to be achieved by the year 2030.
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India Considers Broad Climate Law Under UN Deal
July 12, 2016
The Economic Times reports that the Indian Prime Minister's Executive Committee on Climate Change has considered speedy and comprehensive implementation of the country's pledges under the UN climate agreement through an "umbrella law" that would set out legislative changes combating global warming across all government ministries and sectors.
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Mayors Coalition Advances UN Climate Deal
July 12, 2016
Mayors from over 7,100 cities in 119 countries have signed on to the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy in order to exchange information on local efforts to combat climate change and implement the UN climate deal agreed in Paris last year.
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UN Official: Brexit Means Rewriting Climate Deal
July 11, 2016
Prior to the UK's vote to leave the EU, Christiana Figueres of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change asserted that the UN deal setting out climate change commitments, agreed in Paris last year, would have to be "recalibrated" in case of Brexit because the deal contemplated that Britain would remain a member of the EU.
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