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UN Report: Environmental Status Quo Will Kill Millions
March 14, 2019
The Washington Post reports that the UN Environment Programme’s Global Environment Outlook calls for “unprecedented action” to halt environmental degradation and save millions of lives from air and water pollution through such measures as “mainstreaming” environmental factors in a vast array of social and economic decisions.
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UN Body Demands UK Action on Abortion in Northern Ireland
March 14, 2019
Irish Legal News reports that the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women has reiterated objections to Northern Ireland’s abortion restrictions and has called on UK authorities to force the country to decriminalize access to abortion in compliance with its “international human rights obligations.”
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WHO Reforms Target Action on Broad Range of Health Policies
March 14, 2019
The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced a set of far-reaching reforms geared toward helping the UN agency, in part, target health issues traditionally reserved for governments and society, such as the implementation of “universal health coverage” and the enjoyment of “better health and well-being.”
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World Bank Publishes Action Plan on African Climate Aid
March 14, 2019
The World Bank Group has published an Action Plan on Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience that seeks to inject $50 billion into projects aimed at “managing climate risks by fostering sustainable national development throughout every sector,” with a particular focus on sub-Saharan Africa.
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World Bank Launches Global Project Embracing Wind Energy
March 13, 2019
As part of the ongoing embrace by multilateral development institutions of the UN’s Paris climate goals, the World Bank Group has launched a program to advise developing countries on the prospects of their installation of offshore wind energy projects and develop a “pipeline” of such projects as targets for private investment.
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