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World Bank Targets $3 Billion in Water-Related SDG Investments
November 29, 2018
In August, the World Bank launched a Sustainable Development Bond initiative aimed at raising over $3 billion in investments supporting the realization of the UN’s comprehensive social and environmental targets contained in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with a focus on SDGs relating to “water, sanitation and marine protection.”
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UN Official Says Paris Deal Climate Pledges Are Not Enough
November 29, 2018
Underscoring the massive level of action needed to meet the global pledges set out in the UN’s Paris climate deal in 2015, the UN’s top climate official Patricia Espinosa has warned that governments are still not on track - even with their current commitments under the deal - to tackle the threats posed by global warming by the end of this century.
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China Uses Belt & Road to Overhaul Global Governance
November 29, 2018
The Straits Times reports that Chinese President Xi Jinping has been selling his country’s massive Belt and Road Initiative, aimed at funding infrastructure for trade across the Eurasian Continent, as a key contribution to China’s ongoing efforts to reform the global governance system.
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UN Rights Chief Identifies State Obligation to Act on Climate
November 28, 2018
Ahead of a UN meeting in December on climate change, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has published a letter warning governments that they have an obligation under international human rights law to take steps to halt global warming.
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UN Rights Observer Criticizes UK Benefits Cuts
November 20, 2018
UN Special Rapporteur for extreme poverty and human rights Philip Alston has concluded after a recent visit to the UK that government welfare and social services cuts over the last eight years are “entrenching” poverty in the country and threatening the economic and social human rights of the poor.
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