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EU Officials Agree to Ramp up Climate Outreach
March 16, 2017
Reuters reports that foreign ministers of EU member states have agreed to respond to a potential US decision to withdraw from the UN's Paris climate deal agreed in 2015 by devoting their diplomatic institutions to "aggressive outreach" in helping to preserve the deal and ensuring funding for "climate adaptation" efforts in poor countries.
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US State Department Demands Reform at UNHRC
March 15, 2017
Foreign Policy reports that US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has written in a letter to a group of nongovernmental organizations that the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), due to its low bar for membership and disproportionate focus on Israel, "requires considerable reform in order for us to continue to participate."
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Funding Gap Indicates Climate Agenda Obstacles
March 15, 2017
Findings from the International Institute for Environmental and Development that less than 10 percent of global "climate finance," aimed at combating global warming and reducing its impacts, reaches local projects shows the challenge involved in efforts of global governance institutions to redistribute funds to fulfill their agenda on climate change.
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UN Ramps up Global SDG Communication Campaign
March 15, 2017
A Deutsche Welle interview with the Director of the UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Action Campaign, Mitchell Toomey, indicates the sophisticated nature of the UN's effort to communicate the case for the comprehensive SDGs to a global audience, including by recruiting 700,000 "voluntary activists" to further the cause of "sustainability."
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World Bank Funds Bhutan's "Climate Resilience"
March 15, 2017
An agreement between the World Bank and the Royal Government of Bhutan to provide $1.5 million to help the country develop a strategic plan to address its "climate resilience" demonstrates how the global financial institution redistributes money to developing countries as part of the UN's "climate finance" agenda.
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