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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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Groves: US Congress Will Oppose UN Climate Funding
December 29, 2015
Steven Groves of the Heritage Foundation writes that the US Congress will not approve President Barack Obama's massive financing pledge to the UN's "Green Climate Fund" to help poorer countries limit the effects of global warming unless the President seeks congressional approval of the Paris climate deal.
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UN Agent Pushes Human-Rights Obligations in Climate Deal
December 28, 2015
Asserting that all countries at the recent UN climate talks in Paris have an obligation to protect the "vast range of human rights" under threat through global warming, UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment John Knox called on these countries to honor their human-rights treaty commitments with strong pledges to counter climate change in the pact.
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