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UN Lauds Global Deal on "Land Degradation"
November 18, 2015
The UN Convention to Combat Desertification has praised its recent deal limiting countries' infrastructural, agricultural, and other development of land, seeking "land degradation neutrality" by the year 2030, arguing that the deal will help counter global warming and sends a "strong message" to negotiators of a UN climate agreement later this year.
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Green Climate Fund Supports Climate Change "Adaptation" Measures
November 18, 2015
An articles from the Thomson Reuters Foundation highlights how the international Green Climate Fund is seeking to redistribute billions of dollars from developed to developing nations in the coming years to help poor countries take measures to adapt to the coming effects of climate change.
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IMF Promotes Activist Economic Equality Agenda
November 18, 2015
In recent remarks to Oxfam America, International Monetary Fund ("IMF") Managing Director Christine Lagarde called for the reduction of income inequality and the "empowerment" of women as ways for countries to grow their economies.
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WEF Summit Pushes Global Governance Reform
November 11, 2015
The World Economic Forum's ("WEF") recent Summit on the Global Agenda 2015 focused on how current institutions of global governance are "ill-equipped" to handle modern challenges and called for redesigning governance systems to usher in a "Fourth Industrial Revolution."
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NGOs Pressure Businesses on Development Goals
November 11, 2015
An article in The Guardian highlights how businesses are responding to pressure from nongovernmental organizations and the UN on implementing the recently adopted Sustainable Development Goals by seeking to show that they are pursuing agendas on the environment and human rights.
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