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UN Official: States Must Go Beyond Climate Commitments
April 27, 2016
Indicating that the current commitments of governments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are insufficient, UN Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction Robert Glasser has called on countries to go beyond their UN climate deal commitments to save the world from "catastrophic future weather events."
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UN Pushes for Ambitious Action to Achieve SDGs
April 27, 2016
At a debate in New York on achieving the UN's comprehensive Sustainable Development Goals ("SDGs") by the year 2030, UN officials called on participants to discuss how to fulfill and finance the SDGs, as well as the UN's climate change agenda, to "create pathways out of our current crises" and transform the world.
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UN, Google Use Satellite Data to Monitor "Sustainability"
April 26, 2016
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization and technology company Google have announced their collaboration to use satellite data to monitor land use, climate change, and the progress of the world toward fulfillment of the UN's comprehensive Sustainable Development Goals.
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UN Report Calls for Rights-based Drugs Approach
April 26, 2016
Declaring that "health is a human right," Executive Director of the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS Michel Sidibé has called for governments to decriminalize drug possession and use and to adopt a "harm reduction" approach to drugs that emphasizes the health and human rights of drug users.
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UNESCO Links "Sustainable" Education, Designated Sites
April 26, 2016
The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization ("UNESCO") recently hosted a forum in Athens considering how to use UNESCO's agenda on Education for Sustainable Development to push institutions of higher education to engage in some of the functions of maintaining UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
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