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UN Agency Blames Globalization for Diet Effects
June 24, 2015
In a new report, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization blames globalization, food marketing, and shifting lifestyles for the move away from the traditional, healthy "Mediterranean diet," a change that may result in either malnutrition or obesity and may thus cause "disability and death."
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UN, China Further Cooperation on Green Financial System
June 24, 2015
Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme Achim Steiner recently met with Deputy Governor of China's central bank Pan Gongsheng to follow up on a report released by the two institutions earlier this year calling for steps to advance the UN's sustainability agenda using China's financial system.
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UN, News Agency Agree to Promote Environmental Agenda
June 24, 2015
The UN Environment Programme has announced that it has renewed its deal with Chinese news agency Xinhua to promote the UN's environmental agenda in China and around the world.
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UN Agent: EU Border Policy Must Focus on Mobility
June 17, 2015
UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants François Crépeau has argued that "irregular migration" in Europe is the result of border security policies that prevent migration and has called for a human rights-focused EU migration policy that is based on "mobility."
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UN Rights Chief Seeks Global Push for Nontraditional Rights
June 17, 2015
In recent remarks to the UN Human Rights Council, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein has called for more action to promote and protect nontraditional "economic and social rights" and to integrate such rights into the global development agenda.
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UN Agency Adopts Standards Against "Informal" Work
June 17, 2015
As part of the UN's post-2015 "sustainability" agenda, the UN International Labour Organization has adopted a set of global standards pushing government policies that seek to move people from "informal" to "formal" employment, including by ensuring the creation of "decent jobs."
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California Governor Touts Pro-UN Climate Agenda Policies
June 17, 2015
As he promotes legislation requiring that half of California's electricity come from renewable energy by 2050, Governor Jerry Brown praised the UN agenda on climate change in a meeting with Christiana Figures of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Los Angeles.
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IEA Calls for Periodic Revisiting of UN Climate Agreements
June 17, 2015
The incoming Executive Director of the International Energy Agency ("IEA") Fatih Birol has called for countries to revisit the binding commitments they will potentially make at a Paris conference on climate change every five years due to changing circumstances and technology costs.
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Schaefer: US Should Press UN on Funding Allocation
June 16, 2015
Brett Schaefer of the Heritage Foundation has called on the Obama Administration to press the UN Committee on Contributions to spread the burden of UN expenses more fairly across its members and to give larger contributors more of a say over UN budgetary decisions.
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UN Group Pushes Sustainable Transport Policies
June 16, 2015
The UN Secretary-General's High-Level Advisory Group on Sustainable Transport is developing a set of policy recommendations for countries to build "sustainable transport systems" and thus reduce greenhouse gas emissions in line with the UN's climate change agenda.
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