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UNCTAD Considers How Creative Economy Can Power Development

November 12, 2019

At the first ad hoc meeting on the creative economy and sustainable development held by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development ("UNCTAD"), among other issues, the 120 global experts considered emerging trade asymmetries, such as "creative economy extraction" resulting from developing country artists moving to places such as Europe and the United States.
ICJ Recognizes Jurisdiction in Case of Russia's Malign Activities

November 12, 2019

The International Court of Justice has released the judgment on recognizing its jurisdiction in the case over Russia's violation of International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism and Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination relating to its various malign activities in Ukraine.
UNCTAD Official Proposes Investment Program to Tackle Social and Economic Development and Climate Stabilization

November 12, 2019

Richard Kozul-Wright, Director of the Division of Globalisation and Development Strategies, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development ("UNCTAD"), is arguing for a coordinated investment program to tackle the twin challenge of delivering social and economic development while stabilizing the climate.
UN Agencies Combine to Promote Gender Equality in Infrastructure Development

November 12, 2019

The United Nations Agency for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women ("UN Women") and the United Nations Office for Project Services recently launched a series of new guidelines titled "Guides on Integrating Gender into Infrastructure Development in Asia and the Pacific."
Vatican Pontifical Academy Embraces UN's Sustainable Development Agenda

November 06, 2019

According to the National Catholic Register, the Vatican's Pontifical Academy of Sciences, governors from the Pan-Amazon region, and United Nations' officials have signed a declaration of commitment to sustainable development in the Amazon, including the promotion of a "green" economy, socio-economic inclusion, and expansion of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.
UN Officials: "New Propulsion Revolution" Needed to Address "Environmental Disaster" Created by Maritime Emissions

November 01, 2019

Isabelle Durant, Deputy Head of the UN Conference on Trade and Development ("UNCTAD") has informed the Global Maritime Forum that, if emissions from the maritime industry are not cut, "an environmental disaster" will occur, with the UN shipping agency spokesperson, Lee Adamson, adding that the maritime industry needs a zero-emissions "new propulsion revolution."
Venezuela Elected to UN Human Rights Council

October 23, 2019

Venezuela has become the latest accused human rights abuser to win a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council, a result to which human rights groups fiercely reacted and which U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Kelly Craft, described as "an embarrassment to the United Nations and a tragedy for the people of Venezuela."
UN Convenes Global Investors for Sustainable Development

October 23, 2019

To address what UN Secretary-General António Guterres describes as "widening inequality, increased devastation from conflicts and disasters and a rapidly warming Earth," Global Investors for Sustainable Development, which includes thirty influential leaders from the corporate world, will work together over the next two years in a bid to free up trillions of dollars from the private sector to finance the Sustainable Development Goals.
International Organizations Press for Climate Change Financial Disclosures

October 23, 2019

Since 2017, the United Nations Environment Finance Initiative has been encouraging businesses to evaluate and disclose, as part of their financial filing preparation and reporting processes, the material climate-related risks and opportunities that are most pertinent to their business activities, including its 2019 Changing Course report promoting standardization of climate risk assessment methodologies.
UNESCO Institutes Promotes Global Citizenship for Human Flourishing

October 16, 2019

Experts from the UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development explain why education needs to be re-purposed and redesigned to build not just human capital for economic growth but to create global citizens for human flourishing.