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UN Summit Concludes with Pledge of Climate "Rulebook"
December 06, 2016
The recent UN climate change summit in Marrakesh, Morocco, ended with governments promising to support the development of a global "rulebook" by 2018 to guide their policies in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and with nongovernmental organizations warning of insufficient redistribution of "climate finance" to poor countries.
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UN Calls for Agriculture-Focused "Climate Finance"
December 06, 2016
Officials from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Bank expressed concern at the recent UN climate summit in Marrakesh, Morocco, regarding the difficulty of reaching a deal with developed countries to redistribute more financing to agricultural systems in poor countries that will adapt to the future impacts of global warming.
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OSCE Trains Counter-terrorism Authorities on Rights
December 06, 2016
At a recent training course for Spanish law enforcement, intelligence, and military authorities in Madrid, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights emphasized a focus on the human rights of victims, potential offenders, and police officers in the performance of counter-terrorism operations.
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Global Energy Body: Climate Pledges Are Inadequate
December 05, 2016
The International Energy Agency has warned that national pledges made as part of the UN climate deal agreed in Paris last year are inadequate to prevent catastrophic levels of global warming and has called for ambitious actions by governments to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.
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Security Organization Promotes "Green Economy"
December 05, 2016
At the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe's Aarhus Centres Annual Meeting in Vienna, the OSCE gathered government officials and nongovernmental organizations to discuss how countries have pursued "resource efficiency, green economy and environmental protection" under the Aarhus Convention to promote the global "sustainability" agenda.
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