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UN Seeks to Connect AIIB with Sustainability Agenda
January 20, 2016
In a message congratulating China on its launch of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank ("AIIB"), the UN Development Programme highlighted its pressure on the AIIB to heed social and environmental factors, including the UN's agenda on "sustainable development," in its decision-making.
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WEF Report Calls for "Rethinking" Global Governance
January 20, 2016
A Global Risks report issued by the World Economic Forum ("WEF") has identified climate change as a security threat over the next fifteen years and calls for the overhaul of the global-governance system to engage more stakeholders, including private actors, on the world's security.
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Article Links WHO Pollution "Emergency" with UK Airport
January 20, 2016
An article in The Guardian seeks to use a declaration from the UN's World Health Organization ("WHO") that the world's cities, mainly in developing countries such as China and India, face a "public health emergency" from air pollution to cast doubt on the development of a new runway at London's Heathrow Airport.
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China Pushes Alternative Governance Model Through AIIB
January 20, 2016
Ankit Panda writes that the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank ("AIIB"), whose board of governors recently held their first meeting, serves as a Chinese alternative to the Western model of the global governance of development finance, as the AIIB founding documents pledge less focus on the "political character" of the countries in which it disburses funding.
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Article Expresses Concerns on "Multi-Stakeholder" Governance
January 20, 2016
In a recent article, Harris Gleckman of the University of Massachusetts Boston raises concerns regarding a proposal by a World Economic Forum-appointed group to reform the current "multilateral" system of global governance, comprising national governments, to make way for a "multi-stakeholder" governance system, made up of a range of corporate and other actors.
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