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South African Official Compares Draft Climate Deal to Apartheid
October 29, 2015
As countries continue their negotiation over a global pact on climate change, a delegate from South Africa criticized a draft climate deal for failing to require enough action from developed countries and enough redistribution from these countries to less wealthy nations to deal with global warming, likening the draft deal to her country's former racist apartheid system.
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OSCE Awards Prizes for Visual Designs on Climate Change
October 29, 2015
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ("OSCE") has announced the winners of a contest in which it challenged participants to create visual designs depicting the dangers of climate change to global security.
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IMF, World Bank Push Carbon Pricing with Panel
October 29, 2015
A panel convened by the International Monetary Fund ("IMF") and the World Bank Group that includes national and other officials has called for countries to impose taxes on corporate carbon emissions.
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Bolton: US Should Move to "Voluntary" UN Funding
October 28, 2015
Former US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton has called on the US to treat all funding to the UN as voluntary, rather than "assessed," to ensure that the US only funds UN operations that correspond with US interests and to make it more likely that the operations it funds are effective.
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NGOs Criticize Non-Human Rights Approach in SDGs
October 28, 2015
A group of nongovernmental organizations recently criticized the development process for the UN Sustainable Development Goals ("SDGs"), a set of economic, social, and environmental targets to be achieved by 2030, for failing to classify many of the targets as "human rights" and for not setting out a "minimum floor of socioeconomic well-being for all."
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