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UNESCO Links "Sustainable" Education, Designated Sites
April 26, 2016
The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization ("UNESCO") recently hosted a forum in Athens considering how to use UNESCO's agenda on Education for Sustainable Development to push institutions of higher education to engage in some of the functions of maintaining UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
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UN Report Outlines Social Policies to Remedy Child Inequality
April 25, 2016
A recent study published by the UN Children's Fund ("UNICEF") examines the effects of income inequality among children in high-income countries and calls on countries to implement social policies, including "protecting" the incomes of households with children and promoting healthy lifestyles, to remedy this inequality.
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NGO, China Committee Push Global "Green Finance" Mechanisms
April 25, 2016
The nongovernmental organization Paulson Institute and a committee affiliated with the People's Bank of China are developing recommendations to the G20 Green Finance Study Group on how to promote "robust global green finance mechanisms" in order to fund the "green transformation" of the world's economy.
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UN Launches Study of Global Warming "Cap"
April 25, 2016
Reuters reports that the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has launched a study to determine the feasibility of limiting global warming to an increase of 1.5 degrees Celsius, a goal set out in a global UN climate agreement signed by governments in New York last week.
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UN Pushes Implementation of Climate Agenda in Africa
April 22, 2016
At the recent African Ministerial Conference on the Environment, an initiative affiliated with the UN Environment Programme and held in Cairo, government ministers from Africa agreed to speed along their implementation of the UN's climate change and sustainable development agendas in preparation for the UN Environment Assembly in May.
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