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UN Initiative Advances Climate Agenda in Production, Policies
April 25, 2019
An article published by the UN Environment Programme describes how the international organization’s SWITCH to Green initiative pressures governments and economic actors across the globe to embed the UN’s agenda against climate change into their policies and production.
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UN Chief Forms CEO Alliance on SDG Finance
April 24, 2019
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has announced the formation of a Global Investors for Sustainable Development alliance of CEOs from large companies who will offer advice on funneling global investments into achieving the social and environmental targets of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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UN Body Launches Economic “Sustainability” Tool
April 23, 2019
The UN Environment Programme has launched a Sustainable Consumption and Production Hotspots Analysis Tool to provide online guidance to governments on how to alter supply chains and production and consumption patterns to better comply with UN environmental goals for “sustainable development.”
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World Bank Seeks Environmental “Revolution” with Green Bonds
April 23, 2019
An article from the World Bank on its work with nongovernmental organizations to develop “green bonds” worth over $13 billion with the aim of increasing investment in the global climate change agenda demonstrates the symbiotic relationship between NGOs and the development institution in the promotion of a united, global environmental policy.
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UN Pushes Corporations to Advance Women’s “Empowerment”
April 23, 2019
Highlighting the UN system’s promotion of broad global standards on women’s “empowerment,” a group of UN bodies recently hosted a Women’s Empowerment Principles Forum at which it encouraged businesses to develop strategies to better empower women in the global workforce.
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