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UN Staffers Push for 30-Year National Climate Plans
July 25, 2018
An op-ed from two UN staffers calls for national governments to move “beyond incremental thinking and planning” in achieving their goals under the UN’s Paris climate accord and “envision an ideal future for their countries and citizens” in setting long-term plans to combat global warming.
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UN-Supported Study: Climate Change Will Expand Global Debt
July 25, 2018
The UN recently commissioned a study finding that the impacts of global warming have increased the cost of capital and will balloon the debt payments from “climate change vulnerable countries” in the next 10 years if governments do not meet their commitments under the UN’s Paris climate deal.
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Brussels Summit Aims for “Robust” Climate Action
July 24, 2018
The EU, Canada, and China recently convened a Ministerial on Climate Action in Brussels at which government participants rejected the renegotiation of the UN’s Paris climate deal and committed to creating “comprehensive” and “robust” implementation guidance for the agreement at an upcoming meeting in Katowice, Poland.
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UN Lab Provides “Big Data” on Biodiversity
July 24, 2018
UN agencies and the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity have launched the UN Biodiversity Lab as an “interactive mapping platform” providing geospatial data to policymakers, promote efforts to preserve biodiversity across the globe, and eventually to provide “access to big data” on the UN’s sustainable development agenda.
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OSCE Declaration Focuses on Security, Rights, Climate Agenda
July 24, 2018
Following its recent meeting in Berlin, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly adopted a declaration calling on lawmakers in OSCE member states to fully implement their commitments to international law, global human rights principles, and the effort to combat climate change.
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