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World Bank Launches Urban Sustainability Initiative
March 29, 2016
The World Bank has announced that, in partnership with UN agencies and other development banks, it is launching a $1.5 billion initiative to work with cities in developing countries to promote programs improving urban "sustainability" and reducing their impact on climate change.
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World Bank Meeting Stresses Carbon Tax
March 28, 2016
The World Bank recently hosted a meeting in Zurich, Switzerland, at which it pushed representatives from over 30 governments to adopt a tax on corporate emissions of greenhouse gases in order to limit global warming.
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Groves: UN Climate Deal Requires US Senate Ratification
March 28, 2016
Steven Groves of the Heritage Foundation writes that the UN deal on climate change agreed in Paris in December 2015 is "in form, in substance, and in the nature of its commitments a treaty" that must be approved by the US Senate before it can take effect and before the President can enact its provisions.
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AI Urges UN Scrutiny of UK Surveillance Bill
March 28, 2016
Amnesty International ("AI") has published an open letter to UN Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy Joseph Cannataci urging him to focus attention on and express his concerns about the proposed UK Investigatory Powers Bill, which AI argues provides for mass surveillance without adequate protections for requirements of individualized suspicion or for the right to privacy.
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UN Agent Calls for Redistribution to Fulfill Human Rights
March 23, 2016
While conceding that international human rights law "does not necessarily imply a perfectly equal distribution of income and wealth," UN Independent Expert on foreign debt and human rights Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky has called for governments to engage in redistributive efforts to fulfill "basic rights" of individuals.
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