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UN Meeting Examines Satellites’ Potential Contributions to SDGs
December 07, 2018
In November, the UN hosted a World Geospatial Information Congress to explore opportunities to ensure geospatial information gathered by satellites helps the UN’s “social, economic, and environmental” objectives related to the international organization’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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Oxfam Calls on Companies to Adapt Strategies to Achieve SDGs
December 07, 2018
The nongovernmental organization Oxfam has published a discussion paper finding that, on the whole, 76 global companies the paper examines have not done enough to adapt their “sustainability” strategies to contribute to the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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Pompeo: Current Model of Global Governance Is Failing
December 05, 2018
In remarks at a German Marshall Fund event in Brussels, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned that, since the end of the Cold War, the international order has “failed” the people and said the US would work toward bolstering only international bodies that are effective, “create value,” and “respect national sovereignty.”
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UNGA Expands Recognition of Palestinian Procedural Rights
December 05, 2018
Voice of America reports that, in October, the UN General Assembly voted to allow Palestine to operate more like a member state on procedural matters in the body beginning in 2019, raising pressure among US institutions to respond to the UN’s divergence from US policy opposing recognition of a Palestinian state.
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Former UN Chief Launches Climate Adaptation Commission
December 05, 2018
AP News reports that, in October, former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon worked with 18 countries to create a Global Commission on Adaptation that will push global actors to develop measures to help the world adapt to the impacts of climate change in such areas as food, water, and energy.
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