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UN, Norway Agree on Funding for Climate-Poverty Research
December 30, 2015
The UN Environment Programme ("UNEP") has announced a $10 million deal with Norway that will fund UNEP's work on environmental crimes and on "mainstreaming" policy initiatives at the national level on how development planning can alleviate the effects of global warming on poverty.
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UN Official Insists Climate Deal Is "Legally Binding"
December 30, 2015
In an interview during the UN climate-change negotiations in Paris, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Christiana Figueres argued that any deal that would come out of the Paris talks would have "several different natures of legal bindingness" on countries around the world.
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Security Organization Seeks Solutions to Economic Inequality
December 30, 2015
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ("OSCE") recently hosted an "inter-religious dialogue," including commentary from the director of a consultancy on "Shariah Solutions" and Islamic finance, in Rome on how to confront economic inequality in the OSCE region and beyond.
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World Bank Works with Space Agency on Sustainability
December 29, 2015
The UN's World Bank has launched a new project with the European Space Agency "to reduce poverty, monitor environmental changes, and stimulate economic growth" by pursuing the UN's sustainability agenda through observation of the Earth.
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Development Banks Pledge Funding for Green Transport
December 29, 2015
As part of its activity at the recent UN climate talks in Paris, the World Bank convened seven other multilateral development banks to announce that they would ramp up financing of transportation projects that would counter and limit the effects of climate change.
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