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UN, Partners Host Event on “Investment-Ready” Climate Projects
January 09, 2019
The UN Development Programme, the World Bank, and consulting company World Climate Ltd organized an inaugural “Investment Conference of Parties (COP)” at the recent UN climate summit in Poland pushing global and regional investors to fund projects aimed at combating the impacts of climate change.
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UN Report Examines National Plastics Strategies
January 09, 2019
The UN Environment Programme has produced a report describing national efforts across the globe to limit and regulate the manufacture, sale, and use of so-called “single-use” plastics and microplastics to help guide research on future measures to combat the production and use of such plastics.
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NGO: FIFA Has Rights-Based Duty to Assist Detained Soccer Player
January 08, 2019
Minky Worden of Human Rights Watch argues that the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) has a duty under its new global human rights policies to pressure Thai authorities to release a soccer player detained in the country for extradition to Bahrain.
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NGO Rates European Asset Owners on Climate Action
January 08, 2019
The environmental activist organization WWF recently published a report rating European owners of large assets on their efforts to align their portfolios with the goals of the UN’s Paris climate pact, while calling for the creation of “harmonised frameworks” requiring climate disclosure in the investment industry.
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UN Body Ramps up Pressure on Companies to Set Emissions Targets
January 08, 2019
The UN Global Compact has called on businesses to aspire to “a new level of ambition” in setting their “science-based targets” for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in pursuit of the global climate change agenda and called for all corporate climate action to comply with the UN’s “sustainability” and human rights goals.
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