United Nations

Vatican Rejects Skeptics of UN Agenda in Developing Climate Message

June 24, 2015

The Washington Post reports that while the Vatican invited UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and others who support global action on climate change to a 2015 summit in preparation of the drafting of Pope Francis's encyclical on the topic, it rejected scientists who are skeptical of the concept of man-made climate change.
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."
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.
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.
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."
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.