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UN Report Pushes Link Between Human Rights, Global Warming
January 06, 2016
The efforts by UN agencies and human-rights activists to use the economic, social, and cultural human rights agenda as a vehicle to advance policies countering climate change has culminated in a "comprehensive study" from the UN Environment Programme that calls for world leaders to explicitly recognize human-rights concerns in climate-related legislation and policy.
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UN, NGO Produce Guide on "Green Bonds"
January 05, 2016
The UN Environment Programme and the nonprofit Climate Bonds Initiative have released a report guiding countries with "emerging economies" to establish markets in the public sector for "green bonds" that fund projects furthering the UN's sustainable development and climate-change agendas.
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Germany Will Set out Climate Action Plan for 2050
January 05, 2016
In line with its commitments at the recent UN climate deal reached in Paris, the German Government has indicated that by mid-2016 it will release a "climate action plan" that will detail how the country plans to reach zero fossil-fuel emissions by the year 2050.
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Academic Seeks World Progress on Climate-Refugee Regime
January 05, 2016
Expressing concern over the failure of governments and activists to gain traction at UN fora in establishing legal status for "refugees" fleeing the effects of climate change, Professor Alexander Betts of the University of Oxford calls for world leaders to "update and reform the global refugee regime" to include those affected by global warming.
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World Bank Uses Paris Deal to Expand "Climate Finance"
January 04, 2016
The World Bank Group is seeking to capitalize on the adoption of a UN deal on countering climate change recently agreed in Paris to expand its work and funding in countries for development projects that reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and by developing a "Climate Change Action Plan" that will mainstream climate considerations in the Bank's operations.
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