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US Notifies UN of Withdrawal from Climate Deal
August 09, 2017
UN Secretary-General António Guterres expressed "major disappointment" regarding the future of efforts to combat climate change and "promote global security" as the US delegation to the UN officially notified him of the country's intention to withdraw from the UN's 2015 Paris climate deal "as soon as it is eligible to do so” in 2019.
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Report Predicts Massive Global Climate Displacement
August 09, 2017
Feeding into global efforts to develop a new class of refugees fleeing the impacts of climate change, a report from the Asian Development Bank and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research predicts that up to one billion people will be forced to migrate by 2100 due to climate change, with the Asia Pacific region being the hardest hit by the global phenomenon.
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UN Atomic Agency Touts Role in SDG Progress
August 09, 2017
Showing the universal focus by the UN system on the global body's "sustainable development" agenda, the International Atomic Energy Agency devoted a significant portion of a recent conference in Vienna to describing how its promotion of nuclear energy contributes to the UN's environmental and social targets set out in the Sustainable Development Goals.
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ILO Seeks "Social Justice" in "Occupied" Palestine
August 09, 2017
The UN's International Labour Organization (ILO) has published a report warning that restrictions imposed by Israel on its "occupied" territories in the West Bank are reducing the possibility of "decent work" in the area and calling for "social justice" to be a major portion of the Israel-Palestine peace effort.
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EU Group Promotes SDGs as "New World Order"
August 09, 2017
The European Economic and Social Committee hosted a conference in May pushing for EU recognition of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a "new world order" and calling for SDG promotion with the aim of "helping to fight climate change and becoming a more equal society."
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