International Organizations

  • "V20" Countries Seek Climate Redistribution

    October 16, 2015

    Meeting in Lima, Peru, the so-called "Vulnerable 20" ("V20") group of countries, which claim that climate change will have the greatest effect on their populations, called on developed countries to fund their climate-change adaptation efforts, including through an international financial-transaction tax.

  • World Bank Boosts Climate Funding Levels

    October 16, 2015

    The World Bank Group has announced that it is seeking to boost its funding for climate change-related projects to $29 billion annually by 2020, raising its contributions to such efforts from 21 percent to 28 percent of its total funding.

  • UN Official Warns UK on Bill of Rights Move

    October 16, 2015

    Prior to the UK's releasing its plan for replacing its Human Rights Act with a British Bill of Rights, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein has warned such a move would be "damaging for victims and human rights protection."

  • UN Calls for Global Governance of "Sustainable" Finance

    October 14, 2015

    A report from the UN Environment Programme calls on governments to enact measures, such as disclosure requirements, to push their finance industries to support the UN's "sustainable development" agenda and seeks a "global governance structure" that focuses on sustainability issues.

  • UN Report Links Eating Beef with Climate Harm

    October 14, 2015

    A new study from the UN Environment Programme labels beef as a "climate harmful meat" due to greenhouse gas emissions related to raising cattle and the production of the meat.

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