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UN Official: Climate Action Is "Unstoppable"
March 13, 2017
The BBC reports that, despite contrary evidence from the Trump Administration's regulatory overhaul of the energy industry, the new head of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Patricia Espinosa has called actions to counter climate change "unstoppable" and has expressed hope that the US will not withdraw from the recent UN climate deal.
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UN Mechanism Updates "Clean Development" Rules
March 13, 2017
The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change's Clean Development Mechanism has announced an update to its regulations streamlining the use of the Mechanism by developing countries seeking to receive financial credits for reducing their greenhouse gas emissions as part of the UN's climate change agenda.
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Experts: Fold UNRWA into Broader UN Refugee Efforts
March 13, 2017
Two representatives of nongovernmental organizations on Jewish policy and international relations, Richard Schifter and Eric Rozenman, are calling on the Trump Administration to insist that the UN integrate its Palestinian refugee office into its general refugee office, rather than continuing to fund an office accused of deepening the sectarian conflict.
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UN Agent Criticizes US Relations with Indian Tribes
March 08, 2017
UN Special Rapporteur Victoria Tauli-Corpuz has criticized the US federal government for a "lack of good faith involvement" in consulting Native American tribes on energy and development projects such as the Dakota Access pipeline project in North Dakota.
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UN Agent Calls on Tunisia to Improve "Social Rights"
March 02, 2017
At the end of his visit to Tunisia, UN Independent Expert on foreign debt and human rights Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky called for the country's government to focus on fulfilling economic, social, and cultural human rights by promoting "socially inclusive growth" in its economic policy, in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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