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UN Agencies Develop Gender-Based Macroeconomics
March 14, 2017
The UN Conference on Trade and Development and UN Women have announced a joint program to develop guidelines for governments to "place gender perspectives in the heart of effective macroeconomic policy," including by analyzing the regulation and monitoring of the so-called "care economy."
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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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NGO Promotes Climate Pressure on Banks
March 13, 2017
The nongovernmental organization ShareAction has produced a set of global guidelines instructing investors how best to place pressure on banking institutions to move investments from the fossil fuel industry to low-carbon alternatives in line with the UN's climate change deal agreed in Paris in 2015.
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