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China Meets Paris Climate Targets Three Years Early
June 08, 2018
The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has announced that China will meet its 2020 carbon-emissions targets pledged under the 2015 Paris climate accord three years early, highlighting the low ambition of the climate deal as it relates to developing countries and the pre-existing trend toward low-carbon energy when the deal was launched.
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OSCE Trains Montenegro Lawmakers on "Gender Mainstreaming"
June 08, 2018
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) recently supported a training course in the Parliament of Montenegro focusing on how the body should use "gender mainstreaming" policies to enhance equality between men and women in the country.
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IMF Seeks Updated Standards on "Governance" Issues
June 08, 2018
The Executive Directors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have called for new internal guidance for the development institution on how "to promote more systematic, effective, candid, and evenhanded engagement" related to governance issues in countries in which the IMF operates, including on corruption and "rule of law" issues.
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NGOs Criticize Banks for "Backsliding" on Fossil Fuels
June 08, 2018
A group of nongovernmental organizations has published its latest edition of a report grading 36 of the largest global banks on their support for projects and corporations using "extreme" fossil fuels - including liquefied natural gas - finding that US and Canadian banks are "backsliding" on their public commitments to shift investments to renewable energy sources.
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World Bank Fund Pushes Climate Action Across Economy
June 07, 2018
The World Bank has published a press release about how its BioCarbon Fund's Initiative for Sustainable Forest Landscapes is seeking to drive climate action by rewarding countries with financing for measuring and reducing a broad range of greenhouse gas emissions in the forestry, agricultural, energy, and other sectors.
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