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Schaefer, Groves: US Must De-fund UN Climate Agency
March 30, 2016
Brett Schaefer and Steven Groves of the Heritage Foundation write that, following the accession of the Palestinian Authority to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change ("UNFCCC"), the US is legally obligated to cut off funding to the UNFCCC and possibly to UN's Green Climate Fund, a UNFCCC mechanism that finances projects seeking to limit the effects of global warming.
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UNESCO Chief Highlights Education as Vehicle for "Sustainability"
March 30, 2016
As part of a recent panel on "education as global public good," the Director-General of the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization ("UNESCO"), Irina Bokova, asserted that the importance of education lies in part in advancing the UN agendas on climate change and sustainability among students around the world.
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UK Government Will Promise Zero Carbon Emissions
March 30, 2016
UK energy minister Andrea Leadsom has announced that her government will "enshrine" the UN climate deal agreed in Paris last year into British law by pledging "net zero emissions" by the year 2050.
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UN Convenes Panel on Women's "Empowerment"
March 30, 2016
As UN Women convened the first meeting of its High-Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment, one of the panel's co-chairs defined the purpose of the exercise, funded by the UK Government and the World Bank Group, as "recognizing and valuing fairly all women's work" and ensuring that women "achieve their full potential."
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UN Climate Mechanism Seeks to Expand Role
March 30, 2016
The board of the UN Clean Development Mechanism, which provides credits to companies for reducing their greenhouse gas emissions and operates under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change ("UNFCCC"), has called on the UNFCCC to consider expanding the scope of its work in order to help fulfill the aspirations of the Paris climate deal agreed in December 2015.
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