International Organizations

  • Gulf Body Partners with UN on Environmental Issues

    August 30, 2017

    The Gulf Cooperation Council, a body representing the interests of six Gulf countries, and UN Environment have signed a partnership agreement to develop a “unified system” for addressing environmental challenges in the region and placing such issues “at the core of regional and transnational cooperation.”

  • Nigeria Reports to UN on SDG Progress

    August 30, 2017

    The Nigerian government submitted a status report at the UN High-level Political Forum seeking to show the country has made significant “policy, institutional and regulatory” changes with the goal of “mainstreaming” the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into “national policies, plans and programmes.”

  • World Bank Funds Indian Climate Efforts

    August 30, 2017

    The World Bank Group’s Global Environment Facility has awarded a grant to the government of India to improve the country's "sustainable" forest management and help it meet its "Nationally Determined Contribution" agreed as part of the UN's 2015 Paris climate accord.

  • NGO Calls on G20 to Fix Economic Inequality

    August 30, 2017

    In the run-up to a meeting of the Group of 20 countries (G20) in Hamburg in July, Oxfam issued a press release calling on G20 leaders to adopt a "comprehensive plan to tackle inequality" and fix the "broken economic system" that has led to uneven wealth distributions around the world.

  • UN Officials Link "Human Security" Agenda with SDGs

    August 30, 2017

    Addressing a high-profile event at UN headquarters, officials of the international organization called for governments and other actors to forge connections between the global "human security" agenda, a broad concept based in protecting individuals' economic and social freedoms through development, and achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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