Transnational Bodies

OECD Chief Pushes Redistributive Policies to Counter Globalization Impacts

July 24, 2017

In a recent speech, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) Secretary-General Angel Gurría suggested that policies to reduce the potentially negative impacts of globalization include those that tackle "wealth concentration," enhance "robust social protection systems" and "progressive tax systems," and adhere to global standards issued by the OECD.
Academic Report Examines "Climate Refugees" Issue

July 21, 2017

The Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University has assembled a report that examines current and future conflicts over, among other issues, the international legal status of migrants who resettle across borders to escape the purported effects of climate change.
US Agrees to Sign Insurance Agreement with EU

July 19, 2017

The Trump Administration has agreed to sign a bilateral agreement with the EU on the regulation of insurance and reinsurance while affirming that, under the deal, insurance companies “will only be subject to oversight by the regulators in their home jurisdiction.”
ISO Pushes for Global Standards to Achieve SDGs

July 18, 2017

Elizabeth Gasiorowski-Denis of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) asserts that global standards created by ISO and other groups to harmonize the international regulation of business are necessary to achieve the UN's comprehensive Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
"Vulnerable" Nations Push G20 on Halt to Fossil Fuel Funding

July 17, 2017

Environmental news website Climate Home reports that the finance ministers of the Climate Vulnerable Forum, a political grouping of 49 countries that consider themselves the most vulnerable in the world to global warming, have called on the G20 to set a strict date - preferably by the year 2020 - by which they will phase out all fossil fuel subsidies.
"Emerging" Countries Seek Faster Climate Redistribution

July 14, 2017

Reuters reports that, in the lead-up to US President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the US from the 2015 Paris climate agreement, a group of "emerging nations" led by the largest global carbon emitter China called on the US and other industrialized countries to bear more of the brunt of funding climate-friendly technologies in developing countries.
OSCE Pursues Climate Agenda in Kazakhstan

July 14, 2017

Demonstrating the expansion of the security-oriented Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) into the field of regional climate cooperation, the OSCE recently launched a series of workshops in Kazakhstan on "the application of green technology in rural areas."
G20 Bolsters Climate Demands in US Absence

July 12, 2017

Time reports that the Group of 20 (G20) countries, no longer constrained by US calls for moderation after its withdrawal from the UN's Paris deal on greenhouse gas emissions, issued ambitious demands for global emissions reductions at a recent summit in Hamburg.
Analyst: G20 Has Replaced UN’s Global Governance Role

July 12, 2017

Dr. Francesco Stipo of the Bretton Woods Committee argues that the recent Group of 20 (G20) meetings demonstrate how the group of developed nations, due to its greater unity on policy issues and decisiveness, could replace the UN as the main body of global governance.
Multilateral Groups Double down on Climate, Sustainability

June 22, 2017

In a joint statement, a variety of UN and other multilateral organizations and the German Government in its capacity as the current president of the G20 group of countries illustrated their continuing prioritization of the comprehensive global climate change and "sustainable development" agendas in guiding economic and trade policies around the world.