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UN Officials Push for "Climate Finance" at Summit
December 07, 2016
In statements to the UN climate summit in Marrakesh, Morocco, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and World Bank President Jim Yong Kim called for a "rapid" ramp-up in contributions to "climate finance" aimed to combat global warming and reiterated plans to place pressure on the financial sector to make "climate smart investments."
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MENA Countries Set out "Climate Finance" Project Plans
December 07, 2016
At the recent UN climate summit in Marrakesh, Morocco, representatives from Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) countries described their pledges to combat climate change by reducing their greenhouse gas emissions, much of which they say they will accomplish through global "climate finance" programs supported by the World Bank.
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UN Promotes "Sustainability" Through Physical Education
December 07, 2016
The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) describes how its Quality Physical Education program advances the UN's comprehensive "sustainable development" agenda in schools around the world by promoting "peace, inclusion and equitable development" among children.
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UN Official Supports "Sustainability" Curricula Efforts
December 07, 2016
At a recent meeting with UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Director-General Irina Bokova, UN General Assembly President Peter Thomson applauded UNESCO's efforts in "mobilizing the global education system of the world" to raise public awareness of the UN's comprehensive "sustainable development" agenda.
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UNESCO Signs Countries to Citizenship Education Agenda
December 07, 2016
Two groups operating under the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) convened officials from Uganda, Colombia, Mongolia, and Cambodia for a workshop on how to advance UNESCO's Global Citizenship Education project promoting the teaching of "sustainable development" and human rights in the classroom.
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