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Article Links WHO Pollution "Emergency" with UK Airport
January 20, 2016
An article in The Guardian seeks to use a declaration from the UN's World Health Organization ("WHO") that the world's cities, mainly in developing countries such as China and India, face a "public health emergency" from air pollution to cast doubt on the development of a new runway at London's Heathrow Airport.
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China Pushes Alternative Governance Model Through AIIB
January 20, 2016
Ankit Panda writes that the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank ("AIIB"), whose board of governors recently held their first meeting, serves as a Chinese alternative to the Western model of the global governance of development finance, as the AIIB founding documents pledge less focus on the "political character" of the countries in which it disburses funding.
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Article Expresses Concerns on "Multi-Stakeholder" Governance
January 20, 2016
In a recent article, Harris Gleckman of the University of Massachusetts Boston raises concerns regarding a proposal by a World Economic Forum-appointed group to reform the current "multilateral" system of global governance, comprising national governments, to make way for a "multi-stakeholder" governance system, made up of a range of corporate and other actors.
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UN Supports "Climate Resilience" Project in Moldova
January 20, 2016
The UN Development Programme has announced that one of its many development projects around the world is financial support for Moldovan farmers to assist them in taking into account and adapting to the effects of climate change on their land and in their operations.
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Businesswoman Pleads Guilty in UN Bribery Scheme
January 15, 2016
ABC News reports that a Chinese businesswoman has pleaded guilty in US courts to carrying out a bribery scheme in which then-President of the UN General Assembly John Ashe supported Chinese business interests in exchange for over a million dollars in cash.
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