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US Outlines “Balanced Approach” to Climate Action at UN Summit
December 18, 2018
The US State Department published a statement following the recent UN climate summit in Poland setting out the current Administration’s “balanced approach to economic growth, energy security, and environmental protection” and a pledge not to “allow climate agreements to be used as a vehicle to redistribute wealth.”
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Scientists Warn of Slow Progress on UN Biodiversity Treaty
December 18, 2018
A scientific team led by the California Academy of Sciences has published an essay warning that global progress on the UN Convention for Biological Diversity is not fast enough to achieve the environmental targets of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and prevent a “biodiversity crisis.”
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Experts Seek Return to Original Meaning of UDHR
December 18, 2018
Elyssa Koren and Paul Coleman of religious freedom nonprofit ADF International call for a return to the “original understanding” of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and its protection of a set of “core rights” while respecting the sovereign authority of countries to “fight out issues of moral concern” in their internal systems.
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WHO Calculates Health Benefits of Climate Action
December 17, 2018
The UN’s World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a press release concluding that the up-front costs of global “climate action” as set out in the UN’s Paris climate accord is only half the value of the health gains the WHO predicts as a result of these policies, claiming that the Paris deal is “potentially the strongest health agreement of this century.”
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UNESCO Body Adopts SDG Agenda Items for Teachers
December 17, 2018
As part of the UN campaign to achieve its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a task force of the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) recently adopted a declaration calling for new standards on teacher qualifications and pushing for more public funding for teachers, through “socially just fiscal policies.”
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