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ICAO Receives Support for Airline Emissions Limits
September 14, 2016
Reuters reports that the US, China, and EU countries have pledged to support global aviation emissions limits under negotiation at the UN's International Civil Aviation Organisation that will not be finalized until an ICAO meeting at the end of this month.
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UNITAID Calls for Solutions for IP Drug "Barriers"
September 14, 2016
Drug financing mechanism UNITAID has called for stakeholders to submit ideas on reducing what it deems to be intellectual property-related barriers against access to drugs in developing countries and seeking potential "areas for intervention" on these issues.
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NGO Decries "Holes" in World Bank Safeguards
September 14, 2016
Gretchen Gordon of the Coalition for Human Rights in Development criticizes the World Bank's new Environmental and Social Framework for attempting to create a more flexible response to social and environmental complaints regarding World Bank-funded projects and for not adopting a binding commitment to respect the global human rights agenda.
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NGO Pushes G-20 Action on "Green Finance"
September 14, 2016
The nongovernmental organization GermanWatch has called for the German government, as current leader of the G-20 group of countries, to pressure the group to take action on "shifting the trillions" of investment funding from financial institutions to climate-related projects and requiring public reporting by financial companies on their environmental impacts.
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Article Seeks BHR Assessment of ASEAN Trade Policy
September 14, 2016
Legal researcher Shalini Bhutani has called on countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, in cooperation with their national human rights institutions, to conduct a formal human rights impact assessment of a regional free trade deal to ensure the "privileges" it grants to corporations comply with the global business and human rights agenda.
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