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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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Researcher Calls for Third-Party Monitoring of Carbon Offsets
November 11, 2016
Chinese news agency Xinhua reports that a researcher at Stanford University has called for an independent mechanism to monitor carbon offset schemes used by countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as part of their pledges under the UN climate agreement that went into force in early November.
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India Seeks "Sustainable Lifestyle" Climate Policies
November 11, 2016
The Indian Government has announced that it will push to include in actions agreed at the UN's COP22 climate change conference in Marrakesh, Morocco, policies promoting a "sustainable lifestyle" based on "need-based consumption" around the world.
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