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World Bank Funds Pacific Climate Change "Resilience"
August 07, 2017
As part of the global development bank's "Pacific Resilience Plan," under which it will fund "a broad range of climate resilient initiatives and investments" to Pacific Ocean countries, the World Bank has announced its approval of a grant to the Marshall Islands to improve the country's adaptation efforts to the future, catastrophic effects of global warming.
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Schaefer: UN Produces Inadequate Whistleblower Policy
August 07, 2017
Brett Schaefer of the Heritage Foundation writes that UN Secretary-General António Guterres's whistleblower policy, announced earlier this year, fails to provide adequate protection for whistleblowers in the UN system because it does not refer to the possibility of external arbitration in cases of alleged retaliation against employees who point out improper conduct.
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Schaefer: Enforce US Caps on UN Peacekeeping Funds
August 07, 2017
Brett Schaefer of the Heritage Foundation writes that the Trump Administration must enforce legal caps imposed by the US Congress in the 1990s on UN peacekeeping operations to help remedy its disproportionate contributions to the UN budget and to give other countries the incentive to provide stricter oversight of peacekeeping efforts.
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UN Chief: Embed SDGs in "One Belt, One Road" Project
August 07, 2017
At a recent forum in Beijing, UN Secretary-General António Guterres sought to persuade officials from countries that are participating in China's "One Belt, One Road" initiative to embed the social and environmental principles from the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in their work on the massive infrastructure project intended to connect Eurasia.
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UN Agency Issues Climate Planning Guide for Agriculture
August 07, 2017
The UN Food and Agricultural Organization has released global guidelines on how governments should balance the nutritional and occupational needs of their citizens against the need to limit and adapt to global warming as they seek to fulfill their obligations under the UN's Paris climate agreement.
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