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UN Official Voices Concern over US Climate Action
May 02, 2016
UN General Assembly President Mogens Lykketoft has stated that it is important to the future of the recently signed UN climate deal that the next US President not be a climate change "denier" and that the next appointee to the US Supreme Court uphold President Barack Obama's executive action implementing the agreement.
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World Bank, France Fund West African Climate Program
May 02, 2016
The World Bank has announced that it is cooperating with the Government of France to finance the establishment of a West Africa coastal observatory, which will seek to improve the resilience of the West African coast against the impacts of global warming.
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Panel Seeks Ambitious Global Carbon Tax
April 29, 2016
The World Bank has announced that leaders from governments and international organizations on a Carbon Pricing Panel have issued a "vision statement" in which they call for an ambitious, globally connected system of carbon taxation that would cover 50 percent of the world's carbon emissions by the year 2030 in order to counter climate change.
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Ambassador: UN Israel-Palestine Resolution Is No Path to Peace
April 29, 2016
Israel's Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, writes that UN and US officials should deny calls for a UN Security Council resolution that outlines a final agreement between Israel and Palestine, as he argues that such a resolution is not an effective substitute for direct negotiations and will not lead to peace.
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UN Agents: Australia Must Provide Support to Deaf Jurors
April 29, 2016
The UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has found that Australian authorities violated international human rights law by failing to provide deaf people sign-language interpretation or real-time captioning to permit them to participate on juries, concluding that the government's rationale of protecting the confidentiality of deliberations was insufficient.
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