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North American Countries Sign Climate Accord
June 01, 2015
Reuters reports that the U.S., Mexico, and Canada have agreed to form a working group to harmonize energy policies to fight global warming.
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UN Report Claims Climate Successes
June 01, 2015
The UN Environment Programme has published its annual report, which seeks to claim credit for various environmental successes, including a protocol it says contributed to the healing of the ozone layer.
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World Bank Pushes Climate-friendly Bonds
June 01, 2015
The World Bank has published an article illustrating how it uses "Green Growth Bonds," whose growth is linked to an index chosen by environmental, social, and governance-focused ratings agencies, to seek to expand financing of the UN's sustainability agenda.
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WHO Assembly Targets Israel on Health Rights
May 29, 2015
UN Watch reports that at the UN's World Health Organization ("WHO") annual assembly, countries singled out Israel, the only country targeted for alleged violations of health rights, in a resolution asserting failure to provide proper medical treatment for people in Palestinian territories and in the Syrian Golan.
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WHO Pushes "Sexuality-Related Communication"
May 29, 2015
The UN's World Health Organization ("WHO") has published a report calling for policy-makers and healthcare training institutions to help make "brief sexuality-related communication" part of the provision of primary healthcare.