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Activists Seek Education Initiative in UN Climate Deal
December 07, 2015
The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization ("UNESCO") has applauded activists' successful push to include language that advocates school curricula on sustainable development and climate change in negotiations over a UN agreement on global warming.
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UN Pushes "Greening" of Technical Education
December 07, 2015
A UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization ("UNESCO") initiative recently held a "virtual conference" on including the UN's environmental agenda in technical and vocational education and training around the world in order to counter climate change.
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China, France Call for Five-Year Reviews in Climate Deal
December 04, 2015
Reuters reports that the Presidents of China and France have agreed to push for five-year reviews of countries' progress on implementing a UN climate agreement seeking to limit greenhouse gases currently under negotiation in Paris.
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Poor Countries Are Ill-Equipped to Spend Climate Aid
December 04, 2015
Reuters reports that developing countries that have received funding to mitigate and adapt to the effects of global warming lack the capability to implement measures to deal with the phenomenon.
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WHO Points to Catastrophic Health Effects of Climate Change
December 04, 2015
Head of public health at the UN's World Health Organization ("WHO") Maria Neira has warned of a long train of negative health effects caused by global warming, including strokes, lung cancer, risks from natural disasters, food and water shortage, and infections.
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