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UN Chief Shows Prioritization of "Sustainability" Agenda
July 18, 2017
In a report presented to the UN Economic and Social Council, UN Secretary General António Guterres proposes an ambitious "repositioning" of the UN development system to improve the chances of achieving the organization's comprehensive social and economic agenda contained in the Sustainable Development Goals.
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"Vulnerable" Nations Push G20 on Halt to Fossil Fuel Funding
July 17, 2017
Environmental news website Climate Home reports that the finance ministers of the Climate Vulnerable Forum, a political grouping of 49 countries that consider themselves the most vulnerable in the world to global warming, have called on the G20 to set a strict date - preferably by the year 2020 - by which they will phase out all fossil fuel subsidies.
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World Bank Retains Commitment to "Green" Finance
July 17, 2017
At a news conference in April, World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim stated that his organization would continue funding "green energy" and other projects designed to limit the impacts of global warming in spite of the Trump Administration's apparent policy shifts away from global climate cooperation.
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NGO: UN Climate Failure Would Bolster Terrorist Recruitment
July 17, 2017
In a report commissioned by the German foreign office, Berlin think tank Adelphi considers how climate change has "exacerbated" ongoing conflicts in Africa and the Mideast and predicts that the failure of the UN's ambitious agenda on halting global warming would contribute to security risks by bolstering resource-focused terrorist recruiting strategies.
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"Emerging" Countries Seek Faster Climate Redistribution
July 14, 2017
Reuters reports that, in the lead-up to US President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the US from the 2015 Paris climate agreement, a group of "emerging nations" led by the largest global carbon emitter China called on the US and other industrialized countries to bear more of the brunt of funding climate-friendly technologies in developing countries.
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