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Resource Panel Seeks Green, "Socially Just" Cities
March 05, 2018
The International Resource Panel, a body of experts established by the UN Environment Programme, has published a report containing a climate-friendly blueprint for the future development of urban areas, with the goal of a "transition to low-carbon, resource-efficient, socially just cities" around the world.
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NGO Sets out Climate Advocacy Agenda for Investors
March 05, 2018
Mindy Lubber of the nongovernmental organization Ceres highlights how the NGO is using its new Investor Agenda to push investors in its network, with over $23 trillion in assets, to adopt a broad range of policies aimed at placing pressure on corporations to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions in line with the global agenda on countering climate change.
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World Bank Collaborates on Urban SDG Framework
March 01, 2018
The World Bank and the Global Environment Facility have launched a joint "Urban Sustainability Framework" as a guide for cities around the world in their efforts to reshape their social and environmental policies to comply with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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UN Agent: States Must Avoid "Austerity" to Protect Rights
February 28, 2018
UN Independent Expert on the effects of foreign debt and human rights Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky has called on countries around the world to base their decisions on tax and spending policies on principles based in the global human rights agenda, and to avoid negative impacts of "austerity" on social and economic rights.
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UN Agents: US Must Regularize DACA Recipients
February 21, 2018
A group of UN human rights mandate holders has waded into the US policy debate over the Trump Administration's plan to end the protected status (DACA) of migrants illegally brought into the country as children, warning that rescinding such status would "jeopardize" the rights of these migrants and "would reinforce harmful racial stereotypes."
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