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US Official Predicts Swift Development of UN Climate Rules
November 09, 2016
As the UN's Paris climate deal enters into force a year earlier than widely expected amid global apprehension regarding the response of the next US President to the agreement, a US State Department official has predicted an "aggressive acceleration" in the development of transnational rules for implementation of the deal.
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UN Official: Australian Refugee Proposal Violates Rights
November 09, 2016
Thomas Albrecht, a regional representative of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, has argued that an Australian government proposal to ban asylum seekers attempting to reach the country by boat from obtaining a visa would likely violate provisions of a global convention on the human rights of refugees.
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NGO: Business Climate Measures Are Insufficient
November 09, 2016
Based on the disclosures of over one thousand companies responding to its survey on their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the Carbon Disclosure Project has called for a quadrupling of these private-sector climate measures to meet the UN's global climate change goals.
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Academics Detail Negative Rights Records of UNHRC Members
November 08, 2016
In a recent survey, Professors Adam Chilton and Robert Golan-Vilella of the University of Chicago Law School found that the human rights records of members of the UN Human Rights Council are worse than the average record of UN members that are not on the body, raising questions about the UNHRC's credibility in examining human rights violations.
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UN Report Seeks "Dramatic" Emissions Reductions
November 08, 2016
A report from the UN Environment Programme on the eve of last week's entry into force of the UN's Paris climate deal calls for countries to "dramatically" accelerate their restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions to mitigate the negative impacts of global warming and reduce the number of "climate refugees" who must relocate due to the these threats.
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