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WHO Warns of Climate Change, Non-Communicable Diseases
June 07, 2016
The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Margaret Chan, warned in recent remarks at the World Health Assembly in Geneva of climate change and rising non-communicable diseases as two of the global health threats that the UN and its members must address through the UN's Sustainable Development Goals in coming years.
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UN Pushes Veggies for Sustainability
June 07, 2016
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization has published a study calling on governments to promote diets based heavily on choosing vegetables over meats and "processed" foods in order to encourage nutrition and to incorporate the UN's "sustainability" agenda into national agricultural policies.
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Dire UN Report Aims to Push Action on Climate Change
June 07, 2016
The UN's Global Environmental Outlook (GEO-6): Regional Assessments, published ahead of the recent UN Environmental Assembly in Nairobi, warns of various ways in which the global environment is deteriorating faster than previously expected and calls for urgent "climate-resilient" choices to counter these trends.
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UNESCO Encourages "Sexuality Education" Commitments
June 06, 2016
A representative from the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization recently spoke at a conference in Copenhagen on the importance of governments fulfilling their commitments to including "comprehensive sexuality education" in their schools' curricula.
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UN Official Lauds "Social Justice" of SDGs, Climate Deal
June 06, 2016
In remarks at a conference in Bulgaria, Director-General of the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization Irina Bokova asserted that the key aims of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris climate deal are to advance human rights and serve as drivers of "social inclusion and justice."
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France Plans Carbon Tax Rules in Wake of UN Deal
June 06, 2016
The Guardian reports that, in an effort to fulfill its obligations under a UN deal agreed in Paris last year, the French Government is planning to include a minimum tax of €30 per ton of carbon emissions in its finance bill for 2017.
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World Bank Pushes Principles for "Dialogue" on Climate
June 03, 2016
The World Bank Group and other international organizations have introduced a set of six "Principles for Dialogue on Climate Action" aimed at furthering proposals on climate change at the global, national, and local level to fulfill the UN climate deal agreed in Paris.
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NGO Condemns UNHRC for Failure on Rights
May 25, 2016
In testimony at the US House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs, Executive Director of UN Watch Hillel Neuer asserted that the UN Human Rights Council has violated its charter by electing systemic human rights violators as members and targeting Israel for special scrutiny.
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Ban Appoints Envoys on El Niño, Climate Change
May 25, 2016
Warning that climate change will exacerbate the effects of weather events in the future, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed as his Special Envoys on El Niño and Climate Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and a "climate justice" campaigner, and Macharia Kamau, a UN diplomat from Kenya.
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World Bank Report Predicts Costly Climate Catastrophes
May 23, 2016
The World Bank has published a report predicting that, with insufficient action from governments, the expense of catastrophic impacts of climate change and the growing world population will rise exponentially in the next half-century and calling on authorities around the world to transform their urban and coastal planning to account for these risks.
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