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WWF: G7 Should Exceed Paris Climate Commitments
August 09, 2017
Manuel Pulgar-Vidal of the environmental activist organization WWF has called on Group of 7 countries (G7) to treat the agreed targets of the UN's 2015 Paris climate agreement as a baseline for ambitious, "immediate" action toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions and ramping up "climate finance" for poor countries.
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Schaefer: US Budget Plans Can Hasten UN Reform
August 09, 2017
Brett Schaefer of the Heritage Foundation writes that the Trump Administration can use its proposals for cuts to US funding for the UN system to push for "reform and budgetary restraint" in the international organization.
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Paper Calls on US to Withdraw from UNFCCC
August 09, 2017
In the lead-up to US President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the US from the UN's 2015 Paris climate agreement, Nicolas Loris and Brett Schaefer of the Heritage Foundation called on the US Administration to not only withdraw from the "costly, unworkable, and ineffective" climate deal, but also from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
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New WHO Chief Prioritizes "Health as a Rights Issue"
August 09, 2017
In May, the newly elected Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made clear that his priorities as head of the UN agency would be, in addition to managing "global health emergencies," to press for "universal health coverage" and "health as a rights issue."
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UN Laments Proposed US Funding Cuts
August 09, 2017
Reuters reports that a spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General has demonstrated the disproportionate reliance of the UN system on US taxpayer funding by lamenting that US President Donald Trump's proposed cuts in funding to the body, and especially to its peacekeeping arm, would "make it impossible" for the UN to perform "its essential work."
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