International Organizations

  • World Bank Sets out Catastrophic Climate Scenario for India

    July 24, 2018

    Demonstrating its ongoing focus on attempting to determine the future, specific impacts of global warming as part of its promotion of the UN’s Paris climate deal, the World Bank has published a report describing how climate change will drastically lower living standards and increase poverty and inequality in India.

  • Tunisia Project Highlights World Bank’s “Green Energy” Targets

    July 23, 2018

    Highlighting the ongoing embrace by the development institution of the global agenda against climate change in its funding decisions, the World Bank has announced that, as part of a $500-million development project in Tunisia, it will aim for a shift to “a more sustainable and greener energy sector.”

  • World Bank Touts Impacts of Global Green “Trust Fund”

    July 23, 2018

    The World Bank Group recently published a report on how it helps implement the Global Environment Facility, a multilateral “trust fund” focused on green projects, to promote “climate resilience” and fund environmental programs in developing countries around the world.

  • World Bank Promotes “Social and Emotional Learning” Curricula

    July 23, 2018

    The World Bank has released a Step by Step toolkit aimed at the establishment of “social and emotional learning” school curricula to instill values of "self-awareness, self-regulation, social awareness, positive communication, determination, and responsible decision-making” in children from ages 6 to 17.

  • WEF Launches Drone Innovators Network

    July 23, 2018

    The World Economic Forum (WEF) has announced the launch of a Drone Innovators Network through which aviation authorities will exchange global “best practices” on policies related to unmanned aerial vehicles.

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