Transnational Bodies

Countries Sign on to OECD Financial Information Regime

June 10, 2015

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ("OECD") has announced that seven new countries, including Australia, Canada, and India, have signed on to an international agreement to exchange financial information in order to strengthen global governance of the prevention of tax evasion.
NGOs Express Mixed Reaction to G7 Climate Pledge

June 10, 2015

The Guardian reports that some nongovernmental organizations ("NGOs") are not satisfied with the pledge by leaders of the G7 group of countries at a recent summit to phase out carbon use by the end of the century, with some calling for an immediate limitation on long-term fossil fuel projects.
Schaefer: Freedom at Stake in Internet Governance Shift

June 09, 2015

Brett Schaefer of the Heritage Foundation explains why the stakes are high for freedom of expression in recent negotiations over the potential transfer of oversight of the internet from private actors to a global governance body that could be influenced by authoritarian national governments.
Patrick Calls on G-7 to Advance Global Governance

June 09, 2015

Stewart Patrick of the Council on Foreign Relations recently called on the G-7 group of countries, meeting at Schloss Elmau in Germany, to push forward global governance in areas such as health, economic growth, and combating global warming.
Sessions: TPP Deal May Advance Global Governance

June 08, 2015

US Senator Jeff Sessions has expressed concern that a "living agreement" provision in the Trans-Pacific Partnership ("TPP"), currently in negotiation between the US and Asian countries, would create a TPP Commission that advances global governance at the expense of US sovereignty.
OSCE Pushes "Environmental Security" in Kyrgyzstan

June 05, 2015

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ("OSCE") recently held a roundtable session in the capital of Kyrgyzstan on how to achieve "environmental security" in the country.
OSCE Calls for NHRI Cooperation Across Borders

June 04, 2015

At a recent seminar organized in Warsaw by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ("OSCE"), OSCE and national officials called for national human rights institutions ("NHRIs") to work with each other, across borders, to promote the international human rights agenda.
ICANN Chief: Transfer to Global Governance on Track for 2016

June 03, 2015

Reuters reports that the CEO of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ("ICANN"), which contracts with the U.S. government to maintain the infrastructure of the internet, says the process of the U.S. giving up oversight of the body to a multi-stakeholder, international group is on track for the end of 2016.
Article: GDP Is Not Accurate Basis of Global Leadership

June 03, 2015

Professor Lorenzo Fioramonti of the University of Pretoria (South Africa) writes that the concept of gross domestic product ("GDP") should be abandoned as a basis for global leadership in favor of social, economic, and environmental factors.
Climate Coalition Pushes for Short-Term Pollutants Policies

June 02, 2015

A U.S.-led task force at a meeting of the Climate and Clean Air Coalition's ("CCAC") recent High Level Assembly in Geneva sought to scale up CCAC's future advancement of the UN's climate change agenda by pushing countries to reduce "short-lived climate pollutants."