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NGO Measures Business Involvement in SDGs
August 29, 2016
As his nongovernmental organization Ethical Corporation publishes a survey of businesses around the world on their commitment to fulfilling the UN Sustainable Development Goals, Liam Dowd expresses concern that fewer than half of companies plan to engage with their governments in helping to realize the comprehensive SDG agenda.
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UN Agent Pinpoints Worldwide Age of Criminal Responsibility
August 26, 2016
UN Special Rapporteur on torture Juan Méndez has called on Brazilian legislators to reject a constitutional amendment that would lower the age at which the state would consider people fully responsible for committing "heinous crimes" from 18 to 16, arguing that prosecuting 16-year-olds as adults would violate the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
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Editorial Pushes More Global Aid on Climate Change
August 26, 2016
An editorial in The New York Times calls on rich countries to ramp up their funding promises from a 2009 UN climate summit in Copenhagen to build infrastructure in poor countries to help them resist and adapt to the ongoing impacts of global warming.
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UN Deal Spurs City Climate Reporting
August 26, 2016
Reuters reports that the number of cities around the world participating in a climate change data reporting initiative run by environmental group CDP has spiked since the conclusion of a UN deal on greenhouse gas emissions in Paris late last year.
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Academic Pushes Reduced Role for Global Governance
August 25, 2016
Professor Dani Rodrik of Harvard University argues that, in a world where economic policy decisions still have primarily domestic impacts, governments should use global governance as a limited tool to promote transparent and representative democracies rather than as a mechanism to advance certain domestic policy outcomes.
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