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UN Forms Coalition to Measure Global Education Data
May 11, 2016
As part of its efforts to implement the UN's comprehensive Sustainable Development Goals, which include targets on education, the UNESCO Institute for Statistics has formed a Global Alliance to Monitor Learning that will seek to support governments in measuring their progress on developing sustainable education.
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Governments Join Global Initiative on Carbon Taxation
May 11, 2016
Representatives of 30 governments recently gathered in Lima, Peru, to discuss next steps in their cooperation with the World Bank-supported Partnership for Market Readiness, which provides assistance to countries in their development of taxation systems for carbon emissions in order to reduce global warming.
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World Bank Seeks Global Sustainable Transportation Coalition
May 11, 2016
At the recent Climate Action 2016 Summit in Washington, DC, representatives from the World Bank, government, and business called for the development of a "sustainable mobility for all framework" that would pressure government and business leaders to cut greenhouse gas emissions from transportation systems and automobiles around the world.
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Article Questions WHO Leadership in Wake of Ebola Response
May 11, 2016
Yanzhong Huang of the Council on Foreign Relations pinpoints both financial and structural reasons for the World Health Organization's failures in its response to the ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2014, including lack of strong leadership and reallocation of resources from pandemic responses to prevention of noncommunicable diseases.
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Businesses Sign on to NGO Initiative on Recruitment
May 11, 2016
The Institute for Human Rights and Business has announced that five large companies have joined the NGO-supported Leadership Group for Responsible Recruitment that seeks to place pressure on employers around the world to pay the costs of recruitment of their workers.