<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>
<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>Environment and Health</title>
<link>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/rss/globalregulation.asp</link>
<description>This is environment and health from GGW</description>
<language>en-us</language>
<copyright>(c) 2008</copyright>
<lastBuildDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:44:00 EST</lastBuildDate>
<docs>http://feedvalidator.org/docs/rss2.html</docs>
<generator>www.eResources.com (Generator)</generator>
<managingEditor>ngowatch@globalgovernancewatch.org (Global Governance Watch)</managingEditor>
<webMaster>support@eresources.com (eResources)</webMaster>
<ttl>60</ttl>
<atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"  rel="self" href="http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/rss/globalregulation.asp" type="application/rss+xml" /><item>
<title><![CDATA[NGOs Seek UN Governance of U.S. Intellectual Property Trade Agreements]]></title>
<link>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/ngos-seek-un-governance-of-us-intellectual-property-trade-agreements</link>
<description><![CDATA[Frustrated by successful bi-lateral trade agreements entered into between the United States and developing countries that encourage the adoption of sound national intellectual property policies and the waiver of the provisions of an international agreement that offers developing countries flexibility in securing access to generic medicines, two separate groups have submitted an allegation letter and declaration with several United Nations agencies requesting that they intervene.  These two recent submissions evidence the larger role that non-governmental organizations ("NGOs") want the UN to play in globally governing national domestic policies and transnational corporations for the redistribution of wealth and property rights without respect for democratic processes and the rule of law.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/ngos-seek-un-governance-of-us-intellectual-property-trade-agreements</guid>
</item>
<item>
<title><![CDATA[BP Compensation Fund Threatens the Rule of Law on a Global Scale]]></title>
<link>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/bp-compensation-fund-threatens-the-rule-of-law-on-a-global-scale</link>
<description><![CDATA[By entering into an agreement with the Administration of U.S. President Barack Obama to pay $20 billion into a fund to compensate victims of the recent Gulf of Mexico oil spill and pay for the environmental clean-up, BP PLC ("BP") has set a dangerous precedent for other transnational corporations who depend on the rule of law to protect them from unproven claims for damages from a host of human rights abuses, both real and alledged.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/bp-compensation-fund-threatens-the-rule-of-law-on-a-global-scale</guid>
</item>
<item>
<title><![CDATA[Global Governance of Pandemics Requires WHO Transparency]]></title>
<link>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/global-governance-of-pandemics-requires-who-transparency</link>
<description><![CDATA[With June 11, 2010 being the first anniversary of the World Health Organization  ("WHO") declaring the H1N1 influenza a pandemic, two recently-released European reports raise serious questions about the WHO&#39;s failure to operate transparently in regards to its decision-making processes relating to the pandemic.  In particular, the reports explain that, even as the pandemic officially continues, the WHO has failed to adequately disclose the degree to which the scientific experts upon whom the WHO relied to declare and manage the pandemic had financial ties to the pharmaceutical companies that manufactured the vaccines and anti-flu medications used to combat the outbreak and effects of the H1N1 influenza.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/global-governance-of-pandemics-requires-who-transparency</guid>
</item>
<item>
<title><![CDATA[U.S. Follows Europe's Lead on a Rights-Based Approach to Health Care]]></title>
<link>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/us-follows-europes-lead-on-a-rightsbased-approach-to-health-care-2</link>
<description><![CDATA[The United States Congress&#39;s recent adoption of national health care legislation is the first step toward the implementation of a human rights-based approach to health care governance comparable to the European model that is reaching its final stages of construction. The Council of Europe&#39;s recent adoption of a plan for assessing whether European nations are governing their health care systems in a manner that is designed to realize the "right to health" is the final step in the creation of a matrix of health governance networks that will transform European national health care systems into a single federal health care system. This matrix, consisting of ten networks that work on pursuing an ambiguous and expensive human right to health (not on the effective and efficient delivery of quality health care), provides an operational model for those parties in the U.S. who support a taxpayer-funded, government-run national health system.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/us-follows-europes-lead-on-a-rightsbased-approach-to-health-care-2</guid>
</item>
<item>
<title><![CDATA[UN Adopts Roadmap for International Environmental Governance]]></title>
<link>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/un-adopts-roadmap-for-international-environmental-governance</link>
<description><![CDATA[In the aftermath of the United Nations&#39; failed effort to adopt an international treaty relating to climate change, the United Nations Environment Programme ("UNEP") is accelerating the UN&#39;s effort to globally govern the environment.  By preparing a set of options for improving international environmental governance to be presented at the upcoming 64th session of the UN General Assembly, the UNEP has raised the stakes far beyond the UN&#39;s effort to regulate global warming, which remains a priority.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/un-adopts-roadmap-for-international-environmental-governance</guid>
</item>
<item>
<title><![CDATA[UN Task Force Ignores Member States to Globally Govern Access to Medicines]]></title>
<link>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/un-task-force-ignores-member-states-to-globally-govern-access-to-medicines</link>
<description><![CDATA[A UN Human Rights Council task force used a 2009 technical mission to the WHO to discuss how to implement a WHO global strategy on public health in a manner that promotes a human right to health that member states specifically deleted from the final text of the global strategy.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/un-task-force-ignores-member-states-to-globally-govern-access-to-medicines</guid>
</item>
<item>
<title><![CDATA[Babel Impulse Spurs WHO Global Health Equity Research Agenda]]></title>
<link>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/babel-impulse-spurs-who-global-health-equity-research-agenda</link>
<description><![CDATA[The beginning of the 21st century is being marked by global governance ambitions arising from the Babel Impulse-the inherent desire of an elite cadre of world leaders and bureaucrats to articulate and build a tower of secular ethical norms designed to relieve the world of wealth disparities and human suffering that they attribute to the refusal of developed nations and transnational businesses to share the knowledge and means to generate wealth.  This modern-day Tower of Babel is being built by a matrix of human rights governance networks  that generate research and soft law norms that, in theory, will settle to form the hard law foundation of perpetual peace and security.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:42:00 EST</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/babel-impulse-spurs-who-global-health-equity-research-agenda</guid>
</item>
<item>
<title><![CDATA[The Copenhagen Accord:  Global Governance, Chicago Style]]></title>
<link>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/the-copenhagen-accord--global-governance-chicago-style</link>
<description><![CDATA[At last week&#39;s United Nations Climate Change Conference  in Copenhagen, Denmark, President Barack Obama and the leaders of four other nations arbitrarily seized control of a two-year negotiating process among 193 UN member states to impose an ambiguous and open-ended climate change "accord."]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:39:00 EST</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/the-copenhagen-accord--global-governance-chicago-style</guid>
</item>
<item>
<title><![CDATA[Researchers Prove Lack of Transparency and Accountability in Global Governance]]></title>
<link>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/researchers-prove-lack-of-transparency-and-accountability-in-global-governance</link>
<description><![CDATA[Critics of the United Nations global governance agenda often point to the lack of transparency and accountability associated with UN research efforts. Last week, the soundness of this criticism was supported by news that some of the world&#39;s leading global climate change scientists had deleted, doctored, withheld, or stonewalled the publication of information that might prove detrimental to the UN&#39;s effort to regulate human activity that allegedly causes global warming.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:54:00 EST</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/researchers-prove-lack-of-transparency-and-accountability-in-global-governance</guid>
</item>
<item>
<title><![CDATA[Transnational Elites Choose Tinker Bell Over Christ in Teaching Civic Values]]></title>
<link>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/transnational-elites-choose-tinker-bell-over-christ-in-teaching-civic-values</link>
<description><![CDATA[Just one week after the United Nations appointed the Disney character Tinker Bell to serve as its "Honorary Ambassador of Green" to indoctrinate school children in the religion of environmental extremism and climate change, the European Court of Human Rights decided that the display of the crucifix in Italy's state-run schools violates the right of parents to educate their children in line with their convictions and the right of children to freedom of religion.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:16:00 EST</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/transnational-elites-choose-tinker-bell-over-christ-in-teaching-civic-values</guid>
</item>
<item>
<title><![CDATA[WIPO Committee Pursues Global Governance of Inventions Using Genetic Resources]]></title>
<link>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/wipo-committee-pursues-global-governance-of-inventions-using-genetic-resources</link>
<description><![CDATA[The World Intellectual Property Organization (the "WIPO"), is one of several international organizations at the epicenter of a debate over whether the patentability and regulation of inventions created from genetic resources and/or traditional knowledge will be globally governed or will be determined on a case-by-case basis as a result of free-market contractual negotiations within the context of national laws and regulatory systems.  As a result of a recent WIPO decision, a WIPO committee will spend the next two years developing an international legal instrument on the subject that will be considered at the 2011 WIPO General Assembly.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:51:00 EST</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/wipo-committee-pursues-global-governance-of-inventions-using-genetic-resources</guid>
</item>
<item>
<title><![CDATA[UN Human Rights Council Takes First Step Toward Prescribing Access to Medicines]]></title>
<link>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/un-human-rights-council-takes-first-step-toward-prescribing-access-to-medicines</link>
<description><![CDATA[Repeating a process that was used a decade ago to invent a human right to adequate food, the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC), on the last day of its recent Twelfth Session, adopted a resolution calling for an expert consultation to exchange views on the human rights considerations related to the realization of a heretofore non-existent human right of access to medicines.  If history is any guide, the United Nations system will use the expert consultation as a springboard to creating and implementing a right of access to medicines that will jeopardize both the private property rights of multi-national pharmaceutical companies and the incentives to produce new drug treatments for curing life-threatening diseases.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:57:00 EST</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/un-human-rights-council-takes-first-step-toward-prescribing-access-to-medicines</guid>
</item>
<item>
<title><![CDATA[EU Faces Global Governance Challenge to Inspection of Pharmaceutical Shipments]]></title>
<link>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/eu-faces-global-governance-challenge-to-inspection-of-pharmaceutical-shipments</link>
<description><![CDATA[Over the past year, there have been several instances of customs authorities in Europe temporarily detaining for inspection pharmaceutical products manufactured in India that were bound for developing countries such as Brazil and Nigeria.  The goal of the European Union is to prevent the sale of fake and potentially dangerous medicines to developing countries.  Unfortunately, to circumvent EU attempts to protect the intellectual property rights of pharmaceutical companies, Brazilian authorities are taking their case to politicized international organizations.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:35:00 EST</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/eu-faces-global-governance-challenge-to-inspection-of-pharmaceutical-shipments</guid>
</item>
<item>
<title><![CDATA[Study Shows Relative Ineffectiveness of UN Health Program]]></title>
<link>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/study-shows-relative-ineffectiveness-of-un-health-program</link>
<description><![CDATA[According to a recent study published in a leading medical journal, a United Nations program designed to reduce deaths of children under the age of five had no measurable effect on child mortality. The study results raise questions about the ability of the UN to effectively implement global health programs.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:09:00 EST</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/study-shows-relative-ineffectiveness-of-un-health-program</guid>
</item>
<item>
<title><![CDATA[Cap-and-Trade Bill May be Prelude to Global Governance of U.S. Domestic Policy]]></title>
<link>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/capandtrade-bill-may-be-prelude-to-global-governance-of-us-domestic-policy</link>
<description><![CDATA[On June 26, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, also known as the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill. In light of the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference, the passage of this bill could be an indication of the U.S. Congress's willingness to accept a legally binding international climate change agreement, potentially subjecting the U.S. to the global governance of its domestic environmental policies.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:02:00 EST</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/capandtrade-bill-may-be-prelude-to-global-governance-of-us-domestic-policy</guid>
</item>
<item>
<title><![CDATA[United Nations and NGOs Organize Local Communities to Demand Role in National Climate Change Strategies]]></title>
<link>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/united-nations-and-ngos-organize-local-communities-to-demand-role-in-national-climate-change-strategies</link>
<description><![CDATA[In light of the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference scheduled for December 2009 (COP15), approximately 700 representatives of local governments gathered in Copenhagen for the Local Government Climate Change Leadership Summit 2009.  The Summit represents another UN effort to undermine national sovereignty by directly organizing local government leaders to put pressure on UN Member States for action on economic and social issues.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:23:00 EST</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/united-nations-and-ngos-organize-local-communities-to-demand-role-in-national-climate-change-strategies</guid>
</item>
<item>
<title><![CDATA[UN Program Launches Effort to Globally Govern "Earth Systems"]]></title>
<link>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/un-program-launches-effort-to-globally-govern-earth-systems-2</link>
<description><![CDATA[The International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change has announced the launch of a new Earth Systems Governance Project. The goal of the project is to steer societies towards preventing, mitigating, and adapting to global and local environmental change.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 13:01:00 EST</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/un-program-launches-effort-to-globally-govern-earth-systems-2</guid>
</item>
<item>
<title><![CDATA[UN Publishes Road Map for Global Governance of Climate Change Policies]]></title>
<link>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/un-publishes-road-map-for-global-governance-of-climate-change-policies</link>
<description><![CDATA[The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has issued an information note regarding climate change policy proposals and their potential consequences.  The information note highlights three categories of policy proposals:  domestic/national climate change measures; trade-related climate change policies; and international climate responses.  However, the UNFCCC's information note does not adequately address the negative impacts of its climate change global governance proposals.  READ MORE...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:49:00 EST</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/un-publishes-road-map-for-global-governance-of-climate-change-policies</guid>
</item>
<item>
<title><![CDATA[A "Global Green New Deal" – UN Views Financial Crisis as Opportunity to Impose Environmental Mandates and Relieve Extreme Poverty]]></title>
<link>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/a-global-green-new-deal--un-views-financial-crisis-as-opportunity-to-impose-environmental-mandates-and-relieve-extreme-poverty-2</link>
<description><![CDATA[In a March 2009 policy brief titled "Global Green New Deal" (GGND), the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) encourages UN Member States to "green" their various stimulus packages to create a "post-recession economy that is sustainable in the medium to longer term." UNEP maintains that by focusing on environmentally friendly economic recovery initiatives, States will avoid recreating the "unsustainable 'brown economy'" that the UNEP believes led to the current financial crises and extreme poverty. READ MORE...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:27:00 EST</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/a-global-green-new-deal--un-views-financial-crisis-as-opportunity-to-impose-environmental-mandates-and-relieve-extreme-poverty-2</guid>
</item>
<item>
<title><![CDATA[European Court of Human Rights Promotes Emerging "Right to Enjoy a Healthy and Protected Environment"]]></title>
<link>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/european-court-of-human-rights-promotes-emerging-right-to-enjoy-a-healthy-and-protected-environment</link>
<description><![CDATA[On January 27, the European Court of Human Rights, which is responsible for considering and ruling on cases pertaining to the rights contained in the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, issued a judgment which provides that individuals have a right "to enjoy a healthy and protected environment." However, the fact that no such right is expressly contained in the European Convention shows how far activist international courts will go to legitimize and establish so-called "emerging" human rights. READ MORE...]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:10:00 EST</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/european-court-of-human-rights-promotes-emerging-right-to-enjoy-a-healthy-and-protected-environment</guid>
</item>
</channel></rss>
