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UN Official Highlights Ambitious "Sustainability" Agenda
July 09, 2015
Opening the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, President of the UN Economic and Social Council Martin Sajdik demonstrated the ambitious nature of the proposed UN Sustainable Development Goals, which include targets focused on the rule of law and "protection of the planet."
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Four BRICS Governments Call for Climate Finance
July 09, 2015
Four governments from the global BRICS group - Brazil, India, China, and South Africa - have criticized "developed countries" for failing to produce a clear plan to provide $100 billion per year by the year 2020 to poorer countries to help them counter and adapt to global warming.
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OSCE Official Weighs in on EU Migrant Quota Debate
July 09, 2015
Isabel Santos of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ("OSCE") Parliamentary Assembly has praised an EU proposal of a quota system for the resettlement of a wave of migrants in Southern Europe and criticized countries for "protecting their own interests" in denying the entry of migrants.
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Economist Criticizes Proliferation of UN Development Goals
July 08, 2015
Economist Bibek Debroy has expressed concern that the UN's proposed Sustainable Development Goals, which will seek to guide global development policies for the next 15 years, are too broad and vague to be implemented and would be impossible to measure.
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BRICS Nations Develop Global Governance Priorities
July 08, 2015
Sergey Kulik of the Council on Foreign Relations reports that Russia and its fellow countries in the BRICS Group (Brazil, India, China, and South Africa) are seeking to determine their future priorities, particularly in political and economic cooperation, in order to broaden their influence over global governance.
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