International Organizations

  • World Bank Launches Climate Forum for Finance Officials

    August 07, 2017

    In April, the World Bank held the first meeting of its Climate Action Peer Exchange, a forum in which international organizations and academics seek to persuade national finance ministers to adopt "climate-smart macroeconomic policies," such as imposing taxes on carbon emissions and eliminating fossil fuel subsidies, and to channel funding into climate-friendly projects.

  • WEF Panel Pushes ASEAN Integration, Safety Nets

    August 07, 2017

    Speakers on a panel at a recent World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Cambodia on the future of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) called for a combination of regional economic integration and "social safety nets" to open up free trade while dealing with the negative impacts of globalization.

  • UN Agents Demand Broad Policies for Transgender Minors

    August 07, 2017

    On the occasion of the International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, a group of UN mandate holders issued a call for countries to protect the human rights of "trans and gender diverse" minors through such broad measures as creating "safe and affirming spaces," "depathologizing" such identities, and embracing "human diversity."

  • Paper: G20 Must Prepare for "Climate Refugee" Crisis

    August 07, 2017

    The Centre for International Governance Innovation has published a paper pushing leaders of the Group of 20 countries (G20) to pursue law and policy reforms within the global governance system to prepare for the resettlement of massive numbers of "climate refugees" who will be forced to leave their homes due to global warming.

  • Paper Seeks Comprehensive Approach to Climate Change

    August 07, 2017

    A recent paper from the Centre for International Governance Innovation calls for the global, "integrated policy package" toward combating climate change, achieving "sustainable development," and pushing investments toward "climate finance" opportunities to achieve the ambitious goals of the 2015 UN Paris agreement on global warming.

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