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Development Banks Agree to "Climate Finance" Principles
April 13, 2015
The World Bank has announced that at a recent Climate Finance Forum in Paris, two sets of development banks agreed to a common set of standards for tracking how much financial support these institutions provide to projects that mitigate global warming.
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Article: Palestine ICC Action Warrants Cut-off in U.S. Aid
April 10, 2015
Brett Schaefer, James Phillips, and Steven Groves of the Heritage Foundation write that the U.S. Congress should cut off funding to Palestinians following their acceptance of membership at the International Criminal Court ("ICC") at the beginning of April.
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Robinson Pushes Link Between Climate Agenda, Human Rights
April 10, 2015
An article on the website Responding to Climate Change demonstrates activists' commitment to use a human rights narrative to push the UN's climate agenda, as former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson calls for "climate justice" in international negotiations over greenhouse gases.
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Mariaschin Criticizes "UN-Imposed" Israel-Palestine Settlement
April 10, 2015
Daniel Mariaschin of B’nai B’rith International writes that the UN, which he argues has been biased against Israel in negotiations over the creation of a Palestinian state, should not be the source of an "imposed" settlement mandating a two-state solution to the conflict.
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Paper: Arctic Council Should Reject EU Membership
April 10, 2015
A Heritage Foundation paper argues that the U.S., which will soon become the chair of the multilateral policy forum The Arctic Council, should use its chairmanship to safeguard national sovereignty in the Arctic by blocking the application of the European Commission to become an observer at the Council.
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