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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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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.
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NGOs Push for Japanese Firms' Divestment from Coal
July 24, 2018
Environmental activist groups have warned they will closely monitor Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group’s actions following its President’s statement on reconsidering the company’s support of coal-fired power plants, stating that the only viable way forward for the company is a policy that “ceases all new lending to coal fired power generation and coal extraction.”
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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.”
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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.
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