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OSCE Awards Prizes for Visual Designs on Climate Change
October 29, 2015
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ("OSCE") has announced the winners of a contest in which it challenged participants to create visual designs depicting the dangers of climate change to global security.
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IMF, World Bank Push Carbon Pricing with Panel
October 29, 2015
A panel convened by the International Monetary Fund ("IMF") and the World Bank Group that includes national and other officials has called for countries to impose taxes on corporate carbon emissions.
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Bolton: US Should Move to "Voluntary" UN Funding
October 28, 2015
Former US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton has called on the US to treat all funding to the UN as voluntary, rather than "assessed," to ensure that the US only funds UN operations that correspond with US interests and to make it more likely that the operations it funds are effective.
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NGOs Criticize Non-Human Rights Approach in SDGs
October 28, 2015
A group of nongovernmental organizations recently criticized the development process for the UN Sustainable Development Goals ("SDGs"), a set of economic, social, and environmental targets to be achieved by 2030, for failing to classify many of the targets as "human rights" and for not setting out a "minimum floor of socioeconomic well-being for all."
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HRW: Human Rights in Kenya Are at Stake in Climate Talks
October 28, 2015
Human Rights Watch ("HRW") warns that climate change is threatening the human rights of the indigenous peoples of the Turkana region in northwest Kenya through droughts and weather change and that dealing with such threats is an "international priority," including at negotiating sessions over a global climate deal in 2015.
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