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World Bank Highlights Growing Climate Focus with Forest Initiative
February 14, 2019
Highlighting the development institution’s growing focus on fulfilling the UN’s Paris climate accord, the World Bank has signed deals with Mozambique and the Democratic Republic of Congo to fund a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by protecting forest resources as part of the bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility.
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World Bank Climate Fund Pushes Billions Toward Environmental Agenda
February 14, 2019
Reviewing the 10-year history of the Climate Investment Funds, the World Bank touts the fund’s advancement of the global environmental agenda by pushing tens of billions of dollars in financing for “clean technology, energy access, climate resilience, and sustainable forestry” across 72 countries.
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NGO Pushes for ILO Treaty on Rights of Women Workers
February 14, 2019
Aruna Kashyap of Human Rights Watch calls on apparel companies to support the development of a binding global treaty, to be administered by the UN’s International Labour Organization (ILO), to tackle harassment of and violence against women in clothing supply chains.
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Australian Court Rejects Coal Mine Due to Global Climate Agenda
February 14, 2019
Human Rights Watch has published an article celebrating the decision of a court in New South Wales in Australia rejecting an application by a company to mine coal because it would contribute to a rise in greenhouse gas emissions, characterizing the ruling as “the latest in a wave of litigation on climate change” around the world.
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Cities Attempt to Keep “Climate Liability” Suits in State Court
February 14, 2019
Dana Drugmand writes that local officials and NGOs are attempting to keep lawsuits seeking compensation from fossil fuel companies over alleged costs of global warming in the California, as opposed to the US federal, court system, as federal law and precedent offer a slim chance of success in the legal action.
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