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WHO Estimates Failure of Climate Talks Will Cost 1 Million Lives
December 13, 2018
In advance of the ongoing UN climate summit in Poland, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched a report indicating that failure to take sufficient action on climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions would kill at least one million people by the year 2050.
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UN Report Reveals Massive Scope of Paris Deal Pledges
December 13, 2018
In its annual Emissions Gap Report, the UN Environment Programme determined that countries must increase their efforts between three- and five-fold to clamp down sufficiently on greenhouse gas emissions to reach the temperature targets agreed in the UN Paris climate deal.
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World Bank Issues Five-Year $200 Billion Climate Finance Plan
December 13, 2018
The World Bank Group has announced its plans to mobilize $200 billion in funding for “ambitious climate action” in the years 2021 to 2025, focusing on “climate adaptation” projects that seek to counter the ongoing, catastrophic impacts of global warming.
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UN Observers Lament Lack of Progress on “Right to Development”
December 13, 2018
A group of UN human rights mandate holders recently published a statement calling on governments “to intensify efforts to combat economic inequality and discrimination” as inherent threats to a legally binding, universal “right to development.”
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US Prevails on Trade Language at G20 Summit
December 13, 2018
Bloomberg reports that, under pressure from the Trump Administration, the G20 group of countries included in its communique at the conclusion of its recent summit in Buenos Aires language conceding flaws in global trading rules under the World Trade Organization and omitted references to protectionism.
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