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Koonin Counters UN's Claimed Consensus on Climate Change
September 24, 2014
Computational physicist Steven Koonin writes that the claims of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ("IPCC") that the science on climate change is "settled" ignores the low reliability of IPCC predictions on how natural phenomena will influence the world's future climate.
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China Builds Institutions of Global Governance
September 24, 2014
An article in The Economist observes that Chinese attempts to build multigovernmental institutions based on regional security and economic cooperation is an attempt to challenge the West by building "a new world order."
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UN Seeks Development Based on Income Equality, Reproductive Rights
September 24, 2014
In a recent speech, the Director of the UN Population Fund called on governments to focus on accomplishing the UN's "sustainable development" agenda by ensuring sexual and reproductive health rights, often interpreted to include abortion, and reduction of income inequality.
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Paper Calls for New Structure of Global Financial Governance
September 24, 2014
Malcolm Knight calls for reform of the global governance of finance by creating a structure that includes a board of executives implementing international financial policy and a "universal" international financial institution that makes policy recommendations to member governments.
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UN Summit Pressures Countries to Act on Global Warming
September 24, 2014
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has lauded the success of the recent UN climate change summit in New York in pressuring governments and businesses to commit to varying levels of greenhouse gas emission reduction and financing "green" initiatives.
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