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UN Office Tweet Questions Value of Free Markets
September 13, 2016
The Telegraph reports that the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights recently deleted a tweet asking whether "free market fundamentalism," which it defined as "the belief in the infallibility of free market economic policies," poses an "urgent threat."
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UNESCO Plans Ethical Principles on Global Warming
September 13, 2016
The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization and the Kingdom of Morocco have signed an agreement to work toward the development of a global "Declaration on ethical principles in relation to climate change" through an "expert group" that will hold its first meeting in Rabat, Morocco, in September 2016.
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UN Official Predicts 2016 Entry into Force of Climate Deal
September 09, 2016
EFE reports that the Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, Patricia Espinosa, has predicted that enough countries will ratify the UN deal on reducing greenhouse gas emissions agreed in Paris last year that the pact will officially enter into force by the end of 2016.
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NGOs Criticize Lack of G-20 Timeline on Climate
September 09, 2016
According to the website Climate Home, leaders from environmental groups are praising action at the recent summit of the G-20 group of countries in China on "green finance" initiatives to reduce global warming but are pushing for timelines in which countries must halt subsidies to fossil fuel producers.
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Oxfam Seeks More Ambitious G-20 Agenda
September 07, 2016
The nongovernmental organization Oxfam has criticized the G-20 group of countries for what it calls insufficient progress at its recent summit in Hangzhou, China, in cracking down on corporate tax avoidance, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and immediately acting to resettle displaced refugees and migrants.
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